It is a stark reminder of how American medicine — with its focus on breakthrough treatments — can sometimes fail a complex, rare and stubbornly uncurable disease.
Mr. Gilmartin has insisted for years that Merck must focus on breakthrough research and avoid much of the rest of the industry's increasing reliance on me-too drugs that provide little clinical benefit over medicines already being marketed.
He called on the industry leaders at the Climate Intel Summit to focus on breakthrough technologies.
Focus on breakthrough by taking and making the most of this fortuitous event rather than being paralyzed by breakdown from lamenting the loss of what you have grown beyond.
With a focus on breakthrough cancer medicines, the session featured innovative approaches to evaluate breakthrough agents and established a platform to interactively share successful experiences from case studies of 6 novel agents from both the United States and China.
Cheriton says he avoids pursuing market whims–he considers social networking one of them and stays focused on breakthroughs that make measurable improvements to human life, such as the way Google helps a college junior complete a research paper at 3 a.m.
This review focuses on breakthroughs in the development of biocompatible polycations and their biomedical applications in the past 10 years.
This review focuses on breakthroughs in understanding the process involving seasonal carbon dioxide phase changes that have occurred as a result of observations by Mars Global Surveyor.
ATTENTION on the pharmaceutical industry usually focuses on breakthrough drugs — who will have the next Viagra?
"At Illumina Accelerator, we provide entrepreneurs focused on breakthrough genomic sequencing applications key resources for success," said Mostafa Ronaghi, Ph.D., Illumina's Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Illumina Accelerator, in a statement.
Chamath Palihapitiya is the founder of VC firm Social+Capital, which both incubates and invests in early-stage companies focused on breakthrough technologies in healthcare, education, financial services, mobile and enterprise software.
