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August 2007 
This Month

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Research: Poll: Does shifting to commercial research give control over clinical trials? Latest Job Openings


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Want to know about the latest research findings and hottest jobs in the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industry? Then you’ve come to the right place. When you want up-to-the-minute information and job listings for Clinical Research Associates, Contract Clinical Research Associates and Clinical Trial Managers, Sterling-Hoffman Life Sciences Journal is the source to turn to.

"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.”
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, (Biochemist, 1937 Nobel Prize for Medicine,1893-1986)
Challenges in Clinical Trial Specimens Testing Laboratory
 By Rishab K. Gupta, Ph. D., Professor Emeritus, Division of Oncology, Department of Surgery, and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Past Director of Research Core Services, and Immunodiagnosis & Protein Biochemistry, John Wayne Cancer Institute

The main goal in any medical investigation is to discover effective therapeutic agents and validate their effectiveness through clinical trials. These trials involve a large number of subjects in all arms of the trial to assess statistical significance of clinical outcome in response to the therapeutic agent. To achieve the clinical outcome as an endpoint, the trials are lengthy and expensive. It is highly appropriate to take advantage of these trials to incorporate possible surrogate biomarkers to identify which markers are reliable for early detection of disease.

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Signaling Mechanisms of Endogenous Angiogenesis Inhibitors  
By Akulapalli Sudhakar, M. Sc., M. Phill., Ph. D, Assistant Professor and Staff Scientist II Director and Coordinator, Cell Signaling and Tumor Angiogenesis Laboratory, Boys Town National Research Hospital

Angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels, is likely to be regulated by a balance between endogenous proangiogenic and antiangiogenic factors. In the normal physiological human body, equilibrium is maintained between the proangiogenic and antiangiogenic factors. The antiangiogenic factors (molecules), generated by the proteolytic cleavage of the extracellular matrix, include, α1 chain non-collagenous (NC1) domain of type XVIII collagen (endostatin) and some of the type IV collagen NC1 domains considered as endogenous angiogenesis inhibitors.

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Does shifting to commercial research sector from the academic sector give the industry too much control over clinical drug trials?


  Yes
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