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Drug development and working with specialised Rare Disease networks

pharmaphorum

In a recent webinar held by pharmaphorum, in partnership with IQVIA, a discussion was held looking at how to make academic and commercial medical research more efficient, while also looking at the opportunity of genomic data to bring benefits to patients and healthcare systems. The potential to leverage genomic data.

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Clinical Scientist Jobs: The Steps to Succeed in This Role

XTalks

Doctors and physicians rely on the results provided by a clinical scientist to make an accurate prognosis, diagnosis and assessment for a patient’s treatment plan. What is it Like to Work as a Clinical Scientist? A clinical scientist is often synonymous with: Clinical Research / Clinical Laboratory Scientist.

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The use of genomic profiling testing to improve oncology care

pharmaphorum

Across LabCorp , we innovate through science and technology, with access to approximately 2,500 [doctors] and PhDs and over 700 patients. Everyone’s genetic makeup differs, and each person’s cancer experience is unique to them – how cancer develops, how fast it spreads, which drugs it responds to, and more. Tailored oncology.

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Who are the AACR Scientific Achievement Award winners?

Drug Discovery World

Carl H June, MD, FAACR – Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Research June, a Fellow of the AACR Academy, is the Richard W Vague Professor in Immunotherapy, Director of the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, and Director of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Biorepositories as a Guiding Resource for Research & Drug Discovery

XTalks

The power of leveraging clinical data to decipher disease mechanisms and fuel drug discovery has rapidly grown in the era of genomics and personalized medicine. Partnerships and Establishing Research Cohorts. Genomic biomarker discovery helps drive the development of innovative new personalized therapies.

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A history of the pharmaceutical industry

pharmaphorum

Another military man in the drugs business was Edward Robinson Squibb, who as a naval doctor during the Mexican-American war of 1846–1848 threw the drugs he was supplied with overboard due to their low quality. This knowledge of genetics and the underlying cause of many diseases, including cancer, has resulted in powerful new drugs.

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Viagra ‘should be tested as Alzheimer’s therapy’

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The researchers from the Cleveland Clinic discovered the association between Viagra and a lower risk of Alzheimer’s as part of a wide-ranging study that looked at more than 1,600 FDA-approved medicines to try to find drugs that could be re-purposed as dementia therapies.

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