Apr
18
Its been a while since my last post here but its getting harder to find time between the 2 companies and writing grants. But one of the most interesting things I have been watching has been the roller coaster ride of the Pediatric Rare Disease priority review vouchers over a few years. The most recent …
Dec
07
Its been an incredibly fast paced year and hence my posting frequency has suffered. Perhaps its time to get back to writing . Today we had a press release with SRI so that triggered me to fill in the back story. Rewind back to 2014 and the Ebola outbreak was in full flow – see …
Jan
18
I would like to highlight an open postdoc position in the lab of a close collaborator Dr. Alexey Pshezhetsky Open position: Postdoctoral fellow or Ph.D. student Supervising researcher and laboratory: Dr. Alexey Pshezhetsky, laboratory studying lysosomal biology and metabolic disorders, Research Center of CHU Sainte-Justine Project length: 1 year with renewal opportunity Start date: Immediately …
Nov
07
Well today’s post has been a few years in gestation and yes I have had to keep it quiet for a long, long time which was extended as our recent paper was embargoed for what seemed like an eternity. It starts back in 2009 when I was using some of the NIAID/SRI whole cell screening …
Oct
18
Who would have thought in February that when we submitted our manuscript on Zika homology models to F1000Research it would finally appear in PubMed over 6 months later. This was no where near as fast as our first article on Zika that took a few months to be approved and then appear in PubMed. What …
Sep
20
Last tuesday and wednesday (Sept 13-14th) I was very honored to be an attendee at the “Progress Through Partnership: The NINDS 2016 Nonprofit Forum“. My role was to provide an industry perspective on several panels (alongside Dr. Ronald Marcus, Cerecor). There were a large number of rare disease (patients or parent) advocates, academic scientists and …
Jun
24
Its hard to believe that a couple of weeks ago BIO2016 was coming to an end. After 5 days in San Francisco my legs were tired, my voice was rough, and I was tired of boxed lunches and eating dinner at crazy irregular times – generally very late. Its a hard life! I was at …
Jan
20
**UPDATE As of 21st Jan 2016 please note the actual structure of BIA 10-2474 changed to this. My “Armchair science” / speculative contributions on this blog for the clinical trial disaster with BIA 10-2474 got a bit of notice over the past few days at Forbes and C&E News. There have also been discussions with …
Jan
16
**UPDATE As of 21st Jan 2016 please note the actual structure of BIA 10-2474 changed to this. In the past few days we learnt about the clinical trial that went terribly wrong in France leaving several volunteers in a very serious condition. In involves a compound from a company called Bial and the compound …
Oct
15
Today I am at a local conference at UNC and you can find me live tweeting under #PharmSci15 . Conference link is here.
