Pharmacology/ Therapeutics News for October 2019

Pharmacology/ Therapeutics News Archive

UK and China scientists developing new drugs to fight tuberculosis UK and China scientists developing new drugs to fight tuberculosis

23 October 2019: Researchers at the University of Birmingham have joined forces with their counterparts at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health (GIBH) to develop promising drug candidates for anti-Tuberculosis therapy and initiate a drug discovery effort.

Boxing move knocks cancer cells out Boxing move knocks cancer cells out

A classic boxing move, the ‘one-two punch’, could also be effective against cancer: a left jab knocks cancer cells senseless, quickly followed by a right hook that knocks them out altogether.

2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to William G. Kaelin, Jr., Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to William G. Kaelin, Jr., Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to William G. Kaelin, Jr., Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.

The Current issue of “The view from here” is concerned with Ocular Drugs and Drug Delivery The Current issue of “The view from here” is concerned with Ocular Drugs and Drug Delivery

The topic of this month’s newsletter from Drug Discovery Today is “Ocular Drugs and Drug Delivery”.