September 24, 2003 Comments Off on Venter Announces $500K Prize for Significant Advances Toward $1,000 Genome Posted in: General Biotechnology Venter Announces $500K Prize for Significant Advances Toward $1,000 Genome “Just before lunch today at the GSAC conference, Craig Venter stood before the crowd and announced a mouth-watering proposition: a $500,000 Genomic Technology Prize to be awarded by the J. Craig Venter Science Foundation to a person or organization that develops technology ‘to significantly advance’ […]
September 23, 2003 Comments Off on The Odd Couple – CombinatoRx brings matchmaking to drug discovery and development Posted in: General Biotechnology The Odd Couple – CombinatoRx brings matchmaking to drug discovery and development While almost everyone in the drug industry is looking for ways to speed new drugs to market, CombinatoRx has taken a particularly pragmatic approach: Rather than looking for new drugs, it is searching for novel combinations of existing drugs with synergistic effects.
