Category Archive: Chagas Disease

Sep
22

A case for cheaper drug discovery and development

The news has been covering biotech/ pharma for the last few days and it is not a good thing, all because of Turing Pharmaceuticals decision to hike the price of their drug 5000%, which is an old antimalarial called pyrimethamine.  Not surprising the decision was met with an outcry. But looking at the basis for …

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Sep
11

C&EN’s Advances in Drug Discovery and Development

Next Thursday at 10am EST I will be giving a virtual seminar at this virtual symposium – you can find out more and see all the other speakers too. This is a first for me – So I hope for some interaction via Twitter #CENSYM15 Slides are done, now I just have to prepare what …

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Aug
20

ACS 2015, chemistry talks, posters and Tattoo!

I am just back from a very busy trip to Boston for the ACS. It was great to meet up with many people I see only rarely, at these meetings as well as meet new people including one with a molecule tattoo that got a lot of interest on Twitter . I gave 5 talks …

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Aug
11

My updated schedule for the ACS Boston meeting

Well next week it is the ACS in Boston and of course I leave it to the week before to pull everything together. I initially put up here my listing of abstracts titles etc back in May. This has now been updated a bit to include additional talk and poster showings as well as times …

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