Kinaxo Biotechnologies GmbH has received a grant of about €1 million from Germany’s Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to develop a new way of quantifying small molecule-protein interactions by combining mass spectrometry with Kinaxo’s chemical proteomics technology platform, KinaTor.
Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung) has disclosed that it will make more than €400 million available for grants to the life sciences in 2008, representing an increase of €46 million or 13% from its budget for 2007.
The European Commission is asking scientists, industrialists and members of the public to help it draft a code of conduct for nanotechnology.
Hillary Clinton, the Democrat Senator from New York, has received an honorary doctorate of medicine from Göteborgs Universitet for her efforts to improve healthcare in the US. A ceremony is expected to take place in the United States in the autumn of 2007.
Pharming Group NV said that it has made “important progress” in the process of developing and obtaining registration for its recombinant human C1 inhibitor, Rhucin.
The European Medicines Agency has called for the withdrawal from the European market of the neuroleptic, veralipride, following reports of severe side effects.
Five medicinal products, including a generic version of olanzapine, have been recommended for licensing in Europe by the main scientific committee of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA). At the same time, a proposed treatment for Crohn’s disease from Elan Pharma, was turned back.
Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have described the structure of a human membrane protein that is understood to have a major influence on the development of asthma.
UK universities created 187 spin-off companies in the 2005-06 academic year, according to a government survey.
Cambridge Research Biochemicals (CRB) is preparing to investigate a new method for validating antibodies using technology based at Newcastle University and funded by one of the UK’s regional development authorities.