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- 27 Sep 2015
- News
Pharma gives drug development the Hollywood treatment
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry
echoed Hamburg’s call for improvements in regulation, but he also emphasized the innovation side of the balancing act between safety and product development. “Reinvent invention,” he told the audience. The industry must get smarter about developing View Details
- 04 Sep 2014
- News
Our focus was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS
prize to identify a treatment that leads to a 25 percent extension in survival rates. “After eight years, in which we have raised over $10 million,” says Kremer, who lives in his native Israel and communicates via Skype and adaptive... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
Vasella Illustration by Dennis Balogh Twenty years ago a young doctor with a hankering for business experience gave up his clinical practice in Bern, Switzerland, and moved to East Hanover, New Jersey, to try his hand at drug sales with... View Details
- 06 Mar 2020
- News
How Medical Nonprofits Set Winning Strategy
- 15 Mar 2019
- News
Targeting cancer and careers: Precision Medicine
- 30 Sep 2020
- News
How Nonprofit Foundations Can Sustainably Fund Disease Research
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
IP rights for suramin, a century-old drug historically used to treat African sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease, and later tested as a treatment for metastatic cancer. N of One had supported a trial by... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching
nearby Borders bookstore revealed a three-year life expectancy with no available treatment options. And trying to navigate the complexities of the American health care system—bouncing from pathologist to a medical oncologist to... View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
messenger RNA (mRNA) Therapeutics. The data that Bancel saw that evening were shocking. The numbers suggested Moderna had found an entirely new way to treat diseases—one that promised to change the medical world, resulting in cures for rare diseases and View Details
- 07 Feb 2024
- News
The Sound of Success
A groundbreaking gene therapy developed by Akouos, Inc., a precision genetic medicine company founded in 2016 by Emmanuel (Manny) Simons (MBA 2012), has enabled an 11-year-old boy from Morocco to hear sounds for the first time. According to a recent New York Times... View Details
- 04 Apr 2024
- News
The Making of a Medical Milestone
On March 16, doctors at the Massachusetts General Hospital made history when they successfully transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig to a living human. The groundbreaking procedure marked a significant milestone in animal-to-human transplant, or... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Jul 2023
- News
The Network Effect
deal included $1.8 billion in cash, plus a potential future $200 million milestone payment for a clinical-stage drug to treat brain cancer and a 5 percent royalty on the US sales of Tibsovo, a drug used to... View Details
- 30 Jun 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
programs of treatment providers like Hazelden Betty Ford and Caron Treatment Centers. His ultimate message is one of hope. That’s what he didn’t know in the beginning: “I wish I had known that there was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
and cancer. Antibiotics helped lift the average life expectancy at birth from 54 years in 1920 to 78.6 today. But almost as soon as the treatments were made available, physicians had to cope with the specter of antibiotic resistance, a... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
change that. Going forward, we need to view diagnostics, devices, and drugs in terms of the objective value that each creates. What about patient attitudes? Do you think most health-care consumers are ready to place their faith in View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
tone quality, it was nothing short of a nightmare. After exhausting other treatment options, Frisch chose a radical alternative: having tiny, needle-like electrodes placed inside his brain. Those electrodes are part of a device called... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
development and realized two things: First, without industry involvement there can’t be a treatment for ALS, because developing a single drug costs hundreds of millions of dollars. Second, that View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley