Browse our archive of webinars on pharmaceutical and biomedical research from collaborations between pharmaceutical companies, government, biotechnology companies and academia to create new drug discovery opportunities.
The explosion of biomedical data such as in genomics, structure biology and pharmacology can provide new opportunities to improve our understanding of human physiology and disease. Understan...
Adhesion G protein-coupled receptors (aGPCRs) are an ancient class of receptors that represent some of the largest transmembrane-integrated proteins in humans. Besides classic features of GP...
Cancer is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in developed countries including the United States. Early detection of various cancers, before they spread and become incurable, has been...
The continued evolution of precision medicine from the early successes seen in Oncology to other areas of medicine, in particular, Chronic Disease Management, is dependent on the efficient t...
The quest for alternatives to animal safety testing has fueled the development, characterization, and validation of many new technologies. There have been advances in cell and tissue models...
Princess Margaret Living Biobank (PMLB) is a repository for patient-derived organoid models. PMLB has generated over200 organoid models from lung, pancreas, colon, ovary, esophageal and brea...
Over the last few years, the space of advanced in vitro models has grown dramatically as researchers look to better mimic the in vivo environment within inexpensive and high throughput in vi...
Current drug discovery workflows are inefficient. 90% of therapeutic agents reaching clinical trials fail, predominantly because traditional laboratory experiments fail to adequately predict...
Genetically engineered cellular models are an integral part of the drug discovery process from early discovery through clinical biomanufacturing. The various applications of these cellular m...
High-throughput sequencing technology such as RNASeq and whole genome sequencing has enabled deep characterization of health and disease states. Biomarker discovery by these means has only h...
Integrating external and internal ‘omics data is a key element of hypothesis generation, target identification, and biomarker prioritization when it comes to drug discovery. It is neve...
The prevalence of NASH in global populations continues to expand in conjunction with the ongoing obesity and diabetes epidemic. Over the next decade, the disease is projected to become the l...
Flow cytometry is an essential tool for in-process control and release testing of cell therapy products. Standardization of these analytical assays is critical for the success of the manufac...
What does a quantum leap in drug development look like and what is necessary to make it happen? Our greatest opportunity to deliver significant increases in the speed and effectiveness of dr...
Receptors that respond to hormones, neurotransmitters, chemokines and growth factors traffic to the cell surface where they are activated by ligands and signal via coupling to molecules such...
Cancer still accounts for nearly 1 in every 4 deaths worldwide. New immunotherapies have the power to induce durable responses in patients with fatal cancers, but only a small percentage of...
Date: January 25, 2022 Time: 8:00am (CET) 9:00AM (SAST) Globally, in 2020, 38 million people were living with HIV with an additional 1.5 million newly i...
Date: January 13, 2022 Time: 09:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST) Recently, the Infectious Disease Society of America released guidance on how to approach treatment of infections caused by multidrug...
Date: January 11, 2022 Time: 08:00am (PST), 11:004am (EST) Connectivity of laboratory equipment is progressing rapidly. While it started with the possibility to export data from the equipmen...
Date: December 15, 2021 Time: 11:00am (PST), 2:00pm (EST) Glassware washers (GWW) serve two important roles in today's dynamic laboratory environment. First, by automating a routine task...
Date: December 15, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST) Ergonomic aspects are becoming higher priority: Personal health status or corporate sickness levels of employees due to back bone tr...
Date: December 14, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PST), 10:00am (EST) Several fast-spreading variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have become the dominant circulating...
Date: December 09, 2021 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT) The burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been acknowledged worldwide by leading health institutes. Besides the need for new...
Date: December 9, 2021 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00 am (EDT) As the number of biotherapeutic candidates in development is increasing, the requirements of analytical tools to understand the molec...
Date: December 08, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT) Successful bioprocessing is complex and depends on many factors. From the selection of the expression host, media composition, the p...
Date: February 24, 2022 Time: 08:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST) Fume hoods are often the largest consumers of energy in a lab space and are consequent...
