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Health care education researchers call for more research funding to support medical training

Health care education researchers, led by Dr. Julian Archer from Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, have penned a heartfelt editorial in The BMJ calling for more research funding to support the evidence base for medical training.

1 Jul 2015

Inexpensive nickel catalyst triggers decarbonylative cross-coupling between aromatic esters and boronic acids

Esters have been identified to act as a new and clean coupling partner for the carbon-carbon bond forming cross-coupling reaction to make useful compounds for pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals and organic materials.

30 Jun 2015

Duke of Rothesay, Prince Charles to officially open Golden Jubilee Innovation Centre

Today (Wednesday 24 June 2015) His Royal Highness The Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay will officially open the Golden Jubilee Innovation Centre – a focal point for driving forward innovations for NHSScotland.

25 Jun 2015

Study reveals how geography affects the survival of people with end-stage kidney disease

The notion that geography often shapes economic and political destiny has long informed the work of economists and political scholars. Now a study led by medical scientists at Johns Hopkins reveals how geography also appears to affect the very survival of people with end-stage kidney disease in need of dialysis.

24 Jun 2015

ScinoPharm Taiwan, Raffles PharmaTech collaborate to manufacture Celecoxib

ScinoPharm Taiwan, Ltd. and Raffles PharmaTech announced today the collaboration to manufacture "Celecoxib," a non-steroidal and anti-inflammatory analgesic active pharmaceutical ingredient (API).

22 Jun 2015

New technique could allow scientists to pinpoint areas on enzymes that drive chemical reactions

Researchers from Cardiff University have pioneered a new technique that will enable scientists to precisely pinpoint the areas on an enzyme that help to speed up chemical reactions.

18 Jun 2015

AMRI, PerkinElmer form strategic collaboration to accelerate drug discovery

As further evidence of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's successful establishment of a dynamic and growing bio-pharma sector in Buffalo, New York, Albany Molecular Research Inc. and PerkinElmer, Inc. today announced the formation of a strategic collaboration in connection with the opening of AMRI's drug discovery center as part of the new Buffalo Medical Innovation and Commercialization Hub.

17 Jun 2015

Atopix raises additional development capital to investigate OC459 for treatment of asthma

Atopix Therapeutics Limited, a UK biopharmaceutical company developing a novel class of medicines to treat atopic dermatitis and severe asthma, today announced that it has raised additional development capital to advance its lead product OC459 for the treatment of asthma.

17 Jun 2015

CQDM, OCE grant $1.5M to speed up drug discovery and development in Quebec-Ontario Life Sciences Corridor

CQDM and Ontario Centres of Excellence will fund five highly innovative and unconventional game-changing research and development projects to accelerate drug discovery in the Quebec-Ontario Life Sciences Corridor. Partners are granting $1.5M to Quebec-based and, for the first time, Ontario-based researchers thanks to the partnership with OCE through CQDM's 2014 Explore Program, one of CQDM's flagship programs focusing on early concept validation of cutting-edge technologies that address the most crucial needs in drug discovery and development.

17 Jun 2015

ABC TV's science program impacts use of statins among Australians

More than 60,000 Australians are estimated to have reduced or discontinued their use of prescribed cholesterol-lowering statin medications following the airing of a two-part series critical of statins by ABC TV's science program, Catalyst, a University of Sydney study reveals in the latest Medical Journal of Australia.

15 Jun 2015

Princeton researchers develop cobalt-catalyzed reaction that may give unprecedented access to cyclobutanes

Researchers at Princeton have developed a cobalt-catalyzed [2π+2π] reaction that may give unprecedented access to cyclobutanes, four-membered ring-containing molecules.

10 Jun 2015

ITbM researchers find new molecules that change circadian rhythm in mammals

A team of chemists and biologists at the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules, Nagoya University have succeeded in finding new molecules that change the circadian rhythm in mammals by applying synthetic chemistry methods, which makes use of highly selective metal catalysts.

10 Jun 2015

Wounded Warrior Project initiates $100 million commitment to launch national medical care network

Wounded Warrior Project, a national nonprofit veterans service organization based in Jacksonville, Florida, has initiated a $100 million commitment to launch a first-of-its-kind national medical care network to connect wounded veterans and their families with world-class, individualized health care.

3 Jun 2015

Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals signs definitive agreement to acquire FormuTech Nutrition

Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, a leading global provider of Sports Nutrition products, Contract Manufacturing, and FormuTech Nutrition, one of the fastest-growing Sports Nutrition companies in the United States, today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement in which Hi-Tech has agreed to acquire FormuTech.

3 Jun 2015

Phages in chicken meat can transfer antimicrobial resistance to bacteria

Bacteria resistant to antibiotics are on the rise. There are different explanations for how resistances are transferred. Researchers from the Vetmeduni Vienna found phages in chicken meat that are able to transfer antimicrobial resistance to bacteria. Phages are viruses that exclusively infect bacteria. They can contribute to the spread of antimicrobial resistance.

22 May 2015

LSDF awards $2.9 million in funding to help commercialize major medical breakthroughs

Celiac disease-safe wheat, premature infant pain detection, and new medicines to fight flu and cancer are among the ideas to receive $2.9 million in funding from Washington's Life Sciences Discovery Fund (LSDF).

22 May 2015

Cynosure obtains FDA approval to market SculpSure for non-invasive lipolysis treatment

Cynosure, Inc. a leader in laser- and light-based aesthetic treatments, today announced that it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market SculpSure, the world's first hyperthermic laser treatment for non-invasive lipolysis of the flanks.

19 May 2015

Study shows significant benefits of microclinics in rural Kenyan HIV patients

A team led by researchers from UC San Francisco, Organic Health Response, and Microclinic International is reporting results of a study that showed significant benefits of microclinics -- an innovative intervention that mobilized rural Kenyan HIV patients' informal social networks to support their staying in care.

19 May 2015

UNC-Chapel Hill, GSK partner to find cure for HIV/AIDS

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a leading global public research university with significant expertise in HIV basic and clinical research, and GSK, a global, research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare company with a legacy of success in developing treatments for HIV, today announced the creation of the dedicated HIV Cure center and a jointly owned new company that will focus on discovering a cure for HIV/AIDS.

11 May 2015

Two world-renowned scientists receive Poland-U.S. Science Award

World-renowned scientists -- Prof. Mariusz Jaskólski of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland, and Dr. Alexander Wlodawer of the National Cancer Institute, USA -- are the first winners of the Poland-U.S. Science Award granted jointly by the Foundation for Polish Science and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest scientific association.

29 Apr 2015

Catalyst News and Research

Health care education researchers call for more research funding to support medical training

Inexpensive nickel catalyst triggers decarbonylative cross-coupling between aromatic esters and boronic acids

Duke of Rothesay, Prince Charles to officially open Golden Jubilee Innovation Centre

Study reveals how geography affects the survival of people with end-stage kidney disease

ScinoPharm Taiwan, Raffles PharmaTech collaborate to manufacture Celecoxib

New technique could allow scientists to pinpoint areas on enzymes that drive chemical reactions

AMRI, PerkinElmer form strategic collaboration to accelerate drug discovery

Atopix raises additional development capital to investigate OC459 for treatment of asthma

CQDM, OCE grant $1.5M to speed up drug discovery and development in Quebec-Ontario Life Sciences Corridor

ABC TV's science program impacts use of statins among Australians

Princeton researchers develop cobalt-catalyzed reaction that may give unprecedented access to cyclobutanes

ITbM researchers find new molecules that change circadian rhythm in mammals

Wounded Warrior Project initiates $100 million commitment to launch national medical care network

Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals signs definitive agreement to acquire FormuTech Nutrition

Phages in chicken meat can transfer antimicrobial resistance to bacteria

LSDF awards $2.9 million in funding to help commercialize major medical breakthroughs

Cynosure obtains FDA approval to market SculpSure for non-invasive lipolysis treatment

Study shows significant benefits of microclinics in rural Kenyan HIV patients

UNC-Chapel Hill, GSK partner to find cure for HIV/AIDS

Two world-renowned scientists receive Poland-U.S. Science Award

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