Month: December 2010

  • R&D Collaboration to Discover Drugs for River Blindness

    Anacor Pharmaceuticals in Palo Alto California, the University of California San Francisco’s Sandler Center and the Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute (LFKRI) of the New York Blood Center established a research and development collaboration to discover new therapies to treat river blindness (onchocerciasis). River blindness is a parasitic disease and the second leading cause of…

  • Light posting today

    I will be attending an event today on the 30th anniversary of the Bayh-Dole Act that defines patent rights for university-based research. As a result, we will have fewer items on Science Business today. Watch for a full slate tomorrow. *     *     *