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An inconsistent boom-and-bust cycle funding environment for early-stage biotech innovations and burdensome regulation threaten the U.S.’s half-century-long dominance in the biotech sector.
Acadia Pharma’s Catherine Owen Adams is one of the founders of a group of small- to mid-cap biotechs advocating against a ‘peanut butter blanket’ approach to drug pricing for small companies.
Former European Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan and former US Senator Richard Burr, speaking on a panel at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, pushed to see a larger picture beyond the Trump administration’s year of chaos and confusion.
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MONROVIA, Calif., October 22, 2019 – AcuraStem, a biotechnology company advancing neuroscience through patient-based drug discovery, announced today that the company has triggered Phase II funding worth $3 million from its Fast Track Small Business Innovation Research grant awarded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, part of the National Institutes of Health *[Award Number R44NS105156].
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The organizations hope the funding will result in clinical trials in the U.S. and countries in sub-Saharan Africa in the next seven to 10 years. Francis Collins, director of the NIH, said they would focus on “access, scalability and affordability.”
Houston, TX - BreviTest Technologies has been awarded a $1,500,000 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health to further the commercialization of its point-of-care analyzer for rapid opioid urine testing.