Topic: Boston
College and high school students from the world over begin convening in Boston today for the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition to present biotech projects they've been working on all summer. This year's iGEM is hosting 130 teams from the U.S, ...
On June 16 , 2009 , Genzyme announced they had shut down a production facility near Boston while they disinfection the site from a viral contamination. Genzyme Plant Closure Hits Key Drugs, Raises Issues (June 16, 2009) On June 16, 2009, Genzyme ...
Tweet . Let's just say it's a good thing this breakthrough didn't come around when I was in my early twenties, or I may have been tempted to spend a little more time at my favorite neighborhood watering hole. Scientists at the ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When drugmakers fund studies of their own products, the results are much more likely to be positive than when the government picks up the bill, US researchers said Monday.They found that about 85 percent of industry-backed studies ...
BOSTON (Reuters) - At a recent dinner to honor the achievements of Henri Termeer, chief executive of biotechnology company Genzyme, Ananth Raman broke down as he recalled the moment he learned his 7-month old daughter had Pompe disease, a rare genetic disorder ...
Struggling US biotech firm Epix Pharma liquidating assets to pay off creditorsEpix, a struggling biotechnology firm working with British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline PLC to develop an Alzheimer's disease drug, says it is winding down its operations and selling off assets to pay ...
Pharmaceutical companies spend billions of dollars annually trying to persuade physicians to prescribe their medications.Starting on Jan. 1 the drug industry agreed to stop showering doctors with these advertising freebies under new voluntary guidelines. As reported last week by The New York ...
"Physicians perform some extremely valuable services for not only Lilly but for the entire pharmaceutical industry, and you hate to have that relationship diminished by questions of possible distrust about that relationship," said Eli Lilly spokesman Ed Sagebiel.. Lilly's public reporting initiative ...
Pharmaceutical and Academic Luminaries Combine Forces to Address Innovation Bottleneck Enlight Biosciences, a new Boston-based company conceived by PureTech Ventures together with several major pharmaceutical companies, announced today that it will direct up to $39M to advance breakthrough technologies that can fundamentally ...
You might have been afraid to attend the American Bar Association's white-collar crime conference last week. Big Pharma bogeywoman Susan Winkler, chief of the health-care fraud unit at the U.S. Attorney's Boston office, shared the dais with defense attorneys Ty Cobb, Nicholas ...
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