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Fifth China Medicinal Biotech Forum – Conference Recap

I recently returned from the Fifth China Medicinal Biotech Forum held in Beijing, China from 07-09 November 2011.  The purpose of this conference was to update graduate students in China on the latest trends in biotechnology.  This forum also allowed … Continue reading

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Bridging the Valley of Death: Bringing New Drugs from the Bench to the Clinic

To bring a new medicine to the stage of clinical trial testing requires on the order of $500,000 to one million dollars and then seven to ten years of clinical trials and around $800 million dollars before getting to market.  … Continue reading

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Conference Recap – 2011 Society of Toxicology Annual Meeting

The Society of Toxicology’s (SOT) 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting was held on 05-10 March 2011 in Washington, DC.  Several members of Cato Research’s Nonclinical Sciences Development group were amongst the more than 7,000 toxicologists from 50 countries in attendance this … Continue reading

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Diabetes Research Strategic Plan

The media continually alerts us to the epidemic of diabetes in the world.  Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death.  Worldwide in 2007 there were 246 million people diagnosed with diabetes, and an additional 79 million people are at … Continue reading

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Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases – How Rare is Rare?

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) classifies a rare disease as affecting less than 200,000 individuals in the United States.  As insignificant as this classification may sound, collectively there are more than 25 million people in the United States … Continue reading

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