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Obama administration presents national plan to fight Alzheimer’s

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 09:23 AM

Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius has released an ambitious national plan to fight Alzheimer’s disease, named “The National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease.”

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NIH launches collaborative program to spur therapeutic development

Friday, May 4, 2012 08:02 AM

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has unveiled a collaborative program, Discovering New Therapeutic Uses for Existing Molecules, that will match researchers with a selection of pharmaceutical industry compounds to help scientists explore new treatments for patients.

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Recipients of 2012 SAFE-Biopharma Digi Award named

Monday, April 30, 2012 04:52 PM

Recipients have been selected for the 2012 SAFE-BioPharma Digi Award, recognizing innovative uses of the global SAFE-BioPharma digital identity and digital signature standard and the institutions and individuals contributing to broader understanding of its benefits. Recipients included: Astellas, Bristol-Myers Squibb and representatives of two U.S. government entities.

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1000 Genomes Project data available on Amazon Cloud

Monday, April 2, 2012 02:51 PM

The world's largest set of data on human genetic variation — produced by the international 1000 Genomes Project — is now publicly available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, the according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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BioHealth names Chappell first entrepreneur-in-residence

Tuesday, March 27, 2012 06:01 AM

BioHealth Innovation (BHI), a new regional private-public partnership, has selected Todd Chappell as the first entrepreneur-in-residence for BHI at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Technology Transfer (OTT).

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FDA approves clinical trial of artificial pancreas

Monday, March 19, 2012 03:46 PM

The FDA has approved the first outpatient artificial pancreas trial in the U.S., which will be funded by JDRF, a global organization focused on type 1 diabetes research.

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Columbia, Weill Cornell join national effort to spur clinical trials in neurosciences

Friday, March 16, 2012 11:49 AM

The National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) has selected Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Weill Cornell Medical College to participate in a new national effort to accelerate the development of therapies for people with neurological diseases.

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Trovagene names new vice president

Friday, February 17, 2012 12:46 PM

Trovagene, a developer of transrenal molecular diagnostics, has named Charlie Rodi, Ph.D., vice president and chief technology officer.

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NIH launches ‘NIH Clinical Research Trials and You’ website

Tuesday, February 7, 2012 10:16 AM

The National Institutes of Health has created a new website, NIH Clinical Research Trials and You, to help people learn more about clinical trials, why they matter and how to participate.

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NIH to join multi-center trial of new tuberculosis vaccine

Tuesday, February 7, 2012 07:34 AM

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), has joined a phase II proof-of-concept clinical trial of a tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate jointly developed by Aeras and Dutch biopharmaceutical company Crucell.

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