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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
currently has drugs in clinical trials for mela-noma and breast cancer, hopes to have its first products on the market as early as 2004. "I think we're going to see more people in the next decade who are... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
Eventually, he found a treatment trial at the Mayo Clinic that was testing a new combination of chemotherapy and high-dose radiation. Slowly, Susan’s tumor began to shrink, until there was nothing left but... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
developed a way to measure electrical impulses in muscle tissue, and therefore measure changes in those impulses as the disease progresses. This one achievement can effectively reduce some costs associated with clinical View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Bringing a new funding model to the life sciences industry
health care. "It's essentially a form of equity crowdfunding," Farquharson explains. "Since our focus is on breakthroughs in health care, success translates to dramatic improvements in clinical outcomes." Among those companies benefitting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Pedal Mettle
player who was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease in 1995, Berté saw the cancer return six months after she completed her initial treatment. She then enrolled in a clinical trial including chemotherapy,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
comes to mind as I sit in on a value stream analysis meeting of Emory’s clinical trial process with Chief Nursing Officer Susan Grant. A lean manufacturing technique that originated with Toyota, this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
people die as a result. And yet, there are only 42 antibiotics currently in clinical development, and typically only 20 percent of infectious disease drugs that enter phase 1 clinical View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
in January. The product, a simple DNA saliva test to determine an individual's personal sensitivity to routine levels of mercury, is grounded in an eight-year clinical trial that found about one in five... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
PYMNTS.com. (Readers who know of groups in need of PPE can email Miller at anne@projectn95.org.) NOVEMBER 23 Cambridge-based biotech Moderna, led by CEO Stephane Bancel (MBA 2000, AMP 170), released promising results on the coronavirus vaccine it is developing.... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
cancers.” Hundreds of millions of dollars later, there is no doubt that strategy has worked. Most important, those donations have had a tangible impact. “One hundred percent of the money funds rare cancer research and clinical View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
the books—really, all the libraries—it had scanned and stored. For it to augment doctors’ skills, Hogan and others knew that Watson would need to go to med school. So IBM partnered with the Cleveland Clinic and New York’s Memorial Sloan... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
dose them. And there’s a lot of infrastructure that needs to change around that, right? The traditional model is test in animals, test in humans. And you need a lot of animals and humans to test it. The idea of a single-patient clinical... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
a kitten dangling from a tree limb. One visit to Google kills that idea; there are already dozens of companies catering to premenstrual women. What about a service that can make a visit to an urgent care clinic more efficient and draw... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
in on a treatment for age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness. In October 2009 the company entered into licensing and purchase option agreements with Alcon, which is now taking Potentia’s drug candidate through View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
application to conduct human clinical trials in Alzheimer’s patients at the end of the year. Beka Solomon’s response? About time. “I figured this out 10 years ago,” she told her son. “Why haven’t you... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
"Harvard 'B' for Peace." It was an extraordinary introduction to student life at the B-School, and as events such as the student killings at Kent State and Jackson State, the U.S. invasion of Cambodia, and the trial of the Chicago Seven... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
rapid urbanization, sedentary lives, and bad diets. It requires a holistic approach where engineers, designers, and clinicians work together. What lies ahead? We have a clinical trial coming up to validate... View Details