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Inflammation Chem. Head at Roche to give featured talk at Protein Kinases meeting May 27-28, Boston

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MONROVIA, CA – David M. Goldstein, Senior Director and Head of Inflammation Chemistry at Hoffmann-La Roche to speak at GTCbio’s 5th Protein Kinases in Drug Discovery conference May 27-28, 2010 in Boston, MA. David M. Goldstein will give a featured presentation on “Using In-Vitro Assays, including Kinase Selectivity Profiles, to Predict Toxicity In-Vivo”. Internal experience with kinase inhibitors...

Katy Spink of Geron to give Featured Presentation at Annual Stem Cell Conference

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Katy Spink, Vice President of Operations for Geron, will give the Featured address entitled “GRNCM1: Human Embryonic Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocytes for the Treatment of Heart Failure” at GTCbio’s 6th Annual Stem Cell Research & Therapeutics Conference on May 27-28, 2010 in Boston, MA. Dr. Spink will discuss Geron’s GRNCM1 program, in which they are developing hESC-derived cardiomyocytes for...

Barbara Wirostko, Senior Medical Director, Team Lead Ophthalmology, Pfizer to speak at 2nd Annual Ocular Disease Drug & Discovery Conference

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Barbara Wirostko, Senior Medical Director, Team Lead Ophthalmology, Pfizer will present on Endothelin: A Potential Novel Mechanism for Future Drug Development in Ophthalmology at GTCbio’s 2nd Annual Ocular Disease Drug & Discovery Conference on May 27 – 28, 2010 in Boston, MA. Barbara Wirostko will present her topic on Endothelin as a novel target. The benefits of the talk will cover the...

Joost Oppenheim, M.D., Laboratory Chief – NCI, to give Keynote Presentation at GTCbio’s 8th Cytokines & Inflammation Conference on January 28-29, 2010 in San Diego, CA

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Joost Oppenheim, Laboratory Chief at the Laboratory of Molecular Immunoregulation – NCI Frederick, is to give a keynote presentation on a group of structurally diverse multifunctional host proteins called “alarmins”, at GTCbio’s 8th Cytokines & inflammation Conference on January 28-29, 2010 in San Diego, CA. Dr. Oppenheims presentation concerns recent studie that have...

Allen Roses, Director of The Deane Drug Discovery Institute – Duke University, to give Keynote Presentation at GTCbio’s 5th Modern Drug Discovery & Development Summit on October 14-16, 2009 in San Diego, CA

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Allen Rose, Director of The Deane Drug Discovery Institute – Duke University, is to give a keynote presentation entitled, “Modern validation studies for companion diagnostics in Pharmacovigilance and new Drug Development”, at GTCbio’s 5th Modern Drug Discovery & Development Summit, on October 14th-16th, 2009, in San Diego, CA. Companion diagnostics can be developed for efficacy or...

Amy M. Scott-Billman, Vice President of Global Regulatory Strategy for Immunotherapeutics at GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, to give Keynote Presentation at GTCbio’s 5th Modern Drug Discovery & Development Summit on October 14-16, 2009 in San Diego, CA

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Amy Scott-Billman, Vice President of Global Regulatory Strategy for Immunotherapeutics at GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, is to give a keynote presentation concerning regulatory considerations & challenges for immunotherapeutic/diagnostic co-development at GTCbio’s 5th Modern Drug Discovery & Development Summit, on October 14th-16th, 2009, in San Diego, CA. Amy’s presentation highlights...

2nd Annual Biomarker Discovery Europe conference to be held by GTCbio on October 1-2, 2009 in Lisbon, Portugal.

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The cost to discover and develop a drug is increasing dramatically both in Europe and the US. Making things more difficult, as the aforementioned costs rise, the number of approved new drug products is on the decline. Drug manufacturers are desperately searching for ways to increase the efficiency of the drug discovery process while decreasing the costs and time it takes for the necessary...

Biological Therapeutics to be an Important Focus at the 5th Modern Drug Discovery & Development Summit held by GTCbio on October 14-16, 2009 in San Diego, CA.

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Research in biologics has become a hot area for many large pharmaceutical companies as expiring patents, a flood of generic drugs, and slowing growth in small-molecule drug pipelines have led to decreasing revenues. Many “big pharma” companies have begun to invest aggressively in new biologics programs, biotech acquisitions, and facilities construction in pursuit of new avenues for robust revenue...