Drug Trials - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 4

that investors were increasingly supporting late stage research with higher probabilities of success, while funding for riskier early stage research was drying up. Should FasterCures raise money and direct it toward early stage breakthrough therapies? Another issue was... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. Besides reading all the medical journals, Watson could inform doctors of when certain drug trials began and when others ended; it could also sequence a... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Dec 1996
News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

knows, an inspirational business concept is only the beginning of a long and complicated journey marked by unexpected obstacles at every turn. The successful entrepreneur must possess an unshakable belief in his or her goal and - as the View Details

21 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

Industry Location Author:Arthur A. Daemmrich Abstract A consumer-oriented model for drug development and use has attracted attention in recent years as an alternative to the much-maligned approach of mass-marketing blockbuster drugs. In a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

using systems thinking and complexity theory to help us understand the challenges at the ecosystem level. There's also growing attention to using randomized control trials in the social sector, which we tend to associate with View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2013
News

Curing Health Care

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick joked in his speech.) Related Links A Blueprint for Patient-Driven Drug Development Gene Williams (MBA 1987) Blavatnik Gift Accelerates Biomedical Advances Oscar Winners Even worse is what... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Dec 2015
News

The Year in Ideas 2015

to something big. After a second field study, Solomon and Hillerstrom launched NeuroPhage. In tests on mice, the drug they developed improved both memory and cognitive abilities. “We believe it can identify harmful aggregates in the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

01 Jun 2018
News

June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

damaged the US’s social psyche, as did widespread drug use and chemical dependency. Vivid pictures of violence in Vietnam on TV plus incessant riots in major US cities began to blur the differences between crime, punishment, and... View Details

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humans capabilities could be enhanced, aging could be reversed, new forms of life created, and new custom designed materials could be grown rather than manufactured. Companies like Verve Therapeutics announced the first human trials of a... View Details

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