Pharmacovigilance – News and Features

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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics to Support Copernicus with $5.2 Million
Copernicus Therapeutics will utilize the funds for the development its non-viral gene therapy for cystic fibrosis.

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BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics Initiates Stem Cell Safety Study in Primates for Parkinson’s Disease
The Company has initiated a safety trial using an animal model of Parkinson’s disease in primates utilizing its adult stem cell technology.

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Environmental Toxicants Like Lead, Mercury Target Stem Cells
A research study identifies a common molecular trigger for the effects of toxicant exposure.

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Coated Nanoparticles Solve Sticky Drug-Delivery Problem
Researchers take cues from viruses to get treatment through body's protective mucus.

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Tm Bioscience to Supply Tag-It™ Reagents for Personalized Medicine Study
Tag-It™ reagents for P450-2C9 and VKORC1 to be used in a study of patients using warfarin to evaluate the potential of genetic testing.

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Affymetrix Signs Three Year Translational Medicine Agreement with Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
The collaboration will allow researchs to use Affymetrix GeneChip® technology to develop applications for cancer and HIV/AIDS.

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AstraZeneca Chooses ToxWiz Software from CCnet to Help Predict the Safety Profile of Drugs to Treat Liver Function Disorders
AstraZeneca uses ToxWiz to search computational models of 500 annotated pathways to determine relationships between side effects and specific proteins or pathways.

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Warnex to Perform Pharmacogenetic Services for Schering-Plough Canada
Warnex’s Medical Laboratories division will develop pharmacogenetic assays and serve as a central laboratory for several clinical studies of Schering-Plough Canada.

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Combination of Introgen’s Nanoparticles Show Increased Efficacy in the Treatment of Metastatic Lung Cancer
Two powerful tumor suppressor genes, p53 and FUS1, administered intravenously in nanoparticle formulations are capable of shrinking metastatic tumors in models of human lung cancer.

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Osiris Recieves FDA Fast Track status and Clearance to Start Phase III trials for Crohn’s Disease Stem Cell Therapy
Company’s Phase III program will be the last phase of testing before it seeks full approval for Crohn’s Disease.
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