Category: pharmaceutical
WHAT:
At-home medical genetics, open-source science, bio-art, do-it-yourself DNA kits — the life sciences are open to the public as never before, and citizen scientists, from gentleman researchers to high school students and hackers, are tinkering with life as they find it.
The first group of winners of a prestigious award from the National Institutes of Health includes two USC scientists working independently to mine the proteome - the universe of proteins and protein-like molecules - for important new compounds.
Dana Goldman, a widely respected expert in health economics, has been named director of the new Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at USC, Executive Vice President and Provost C. L. Max Nikias said.
A UCLA study has identified a way to turn off a key signaling pathway involved in physiological processes that can also stimulate the development of cancer and other diseases.
The USC chapter of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy held a two-day conference at the USC Orange County Center in Irvine on June 19 and 20.
The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is one of only nine medical schools out of 149 to earn an 'A' grade in a nationwide survey by the American Medical Students Association of educational policies governing students' contact with the pharmaceutical industry.
"We are proud to be in the top
Lina Saenz, a graduate student in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, has been awarded the Eastman Summer Chemical Engineering Graduate Fellowship from the Eastman Chemical Group.
About 800 participants from around the world will be in Bloomington this week for the 21st American Peptide Society Symposium, a forum for exchanging cutting-edge developments in biotechnology.
