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Ex-Genzyme CEO Termeer, GE back translational tech with $20M round

Henri Termeer may have retired from Genzyme after the Sanofi buyout, but he hasn't lost his appetite for betting on promising new technologies for the life sciences field. This morning Seattle-based

NIH launches $140M drug tox project, hunts for translational R&D chief

As the White House helps boost the efforts of NIH chief Francis Collins to create an ambitious new center for translational biomedical research, the agency has struck a deal with the FDA and the

NIH launches $140M drug tox project, hunts for translational R&D chief

As the White House helps boost the efforts of NIH chief Francis Collins to create an ambitious new center for translational biomedical research, the agency has struck a deal with the FDA and the

New drug-discovery center lost in translation

When last we left NIH chief Francis Collins' ambitious plans to build a new center for translational medicine, the project seemed to be "moving at light-speed" by NIH standards, with an October

NIH fast tracks $720M for new drug discovery center

NIH chief Francis Collins made waves in the research community with his ambitious plans to build a new center designed to speed up the high-risk business of chaperoning new drugs out of the lab and

The development revolution starts now--at a university near you

Roche says that it will work with the University of Geneva, Geneva University Hospitals and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics in the translational research arena--just the latest example of a big

GSK burnishes its "open innovation" rep with new translational research fund

GlaxoSmithKline helped seal its reputation as one of the leaders in the "open innovation" movement today with its announcement of a new GSK-MaRS Innovation Fund to help accelerate translational work

GSK, AZ join hands to create new center for collaborative drug research

Here's an interesting new twist on all the drug development partnerships now being formed between Big Pharma and academia. Take a university known for top drug research, add two Big Pharmas and get

How pharma can cross the valley and fear no upheaval

FasterCures, a nonprofit think tank affiliated with the Milken Institute, is devoted to accelerating the discovery and development of new medical solutions for diseases. And in a commentary in the

"Frustrated" NIH chief plots $1B drug development effort

Pronouncing himself "a little frustrated" with pharma's apparent inability to rapidly follow up on scientific breakthroughs with a new generation of therapeutics, NIH chief Francis Collins is pushing