Pharmaceutical science to improve the human condition
Subtitle: winners and finalists of the Prix Galien USA 2012
By: editor-in-chief, Douglas Braaten ; associate editors, David Alvaro, Azra Jaferi
Contributors: New York Academy of Sciences
Series: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences -- volume 1291; Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences -- v. 1291.
Publisher: Wiley Periodicals Inc. on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 105
ISBN-13: 9781573319164
Subjects: Drug development; Drug Discovery; Pharmaceutical Technology; Awards and Prizes; Drug Industry
Other titles: Winners and finalist candidate of the Prix Galien USA 2012
Description: "This Annals volume presents the scientific achievements by winners and finalists of the 2012 Prix Galien USA. Contributions include scholarly summaries from biopharmaceutical industry leaders (GlaxoSmithKline, MethylGene, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Novartis, Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Janssen, Bayer, Merck, UCB Pharma, Medtronic, and Novocure) on pharmaceutical advances in the treatment of a wide range of diseases including advanced melanoma, C. difficile-associated diarrhea, partial-onset seizures, chronic hepatitis C infection, recurrent glioblastoma, and thrombosis-mediated conditions, as well as advances in transcatheter valve technology and ventricular assist devices"--
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"July 2013."

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Development of ipilimumab: a novel immunotherapeutic approach for the treatment of advanced melanoma / Jedd D. Wolchok, F. Stephen Hodi, Jeffrey S. Weber, James P. Allison, Walter J. Urba, Caroline Robert, Steven J. O'Day, Axel Hoos, Rachel Humphrey, David M. Berman, Nils Lonberg and Alan J. Korman; title: Development of everolimus, a novel oral mTOR inhibitor, across a spectrum of diseases / David Lebwohl, Özlem Anak, Tarek Sahmoud, Judith Klimovsky, Ingrid Elmroth, Tomas Haas, Joseph Posluszny, Stephen Saletan and William Berg; title: Advances in the treatment of Clostridium difficile with fidaxomicin: a narrow spectrum antibiotic / Pamela Sears, Yoshi Ichikawa, Nancy Ruiz and Sherwood Gorbach; title: Development of boceprevir: a first-in-class direct antiviral treatment for chronic hepatitis C infection / Daria J. Hazuda, Margaret Burroughs, Anita Y.M. Howe, Janice Wahl and Srikanth Venkatraman; title: Tumor treating fields: a new frontier in cancer therapy / Angela M. Davies, Uri Weinberg and Yoram Palti; title: The Berlin Heart EXCOR Pediatric ventricular assist device: history, North American experience, and future directions / Charles D. Fraser Jr. and Robert D.B. Jaquiss.