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...edifice as large as the behemoth known as Northwest Science Building, the activity level Friday afternoon was surprisingly close to nil. Didn’t these people have some research...
Thankfully, we found these buttoned-down lab rats did in fact have their priorities straight—they were focusing on alcohol and mountains of Doritos. The FAS Center for Systems Biology, a collaborative research unit whose members occupy Northwest, holds happy hours every Friday at 5 pm, and we were lucky enough to stumble upon a coagulated mass of biology researchers “socializing” as they knocked back Coronas and forgot that their shoelaces were still tied (more on the Northwest scene after the jump...
...raging, to say the least. We struck up a conversation with the director of research Bodo Stern, who had consumed at least one bottled blend of hops and barley by the time we started discussing the possible move-in to Northwest of MCB professors and their labs currently located in Fairchild Biochemistry Building down the street...
...announcing a groundbreaking program intended to extend access to medicines for millions of people living in developing countries. GSK’s proposal is not a perfect solution: Millions of patients in middle-income countries, such as India and Brazil, will be left out of the deal. HIV research is also excluded from parts of the program, and even at reduced prices GSK products may remain out of reach for most patients in Least Developed Countries. Nevertheless, the announcement represents a remarkable willingness by a pharmaceutical company to change the way it does business in the developing world...
...February 13 in a speech delivered at Harvard Medical School, would limit prices in the 50 least developed countries and give back a portion of the profits gained in these countries toward programs to expand their health-care capacity. More surprisingly, GSK also announced that it would allow outside researchers access to some of its patented medical technologies in an effort to facilitate more research aimed at so-called “neglected diseases,” or diseases that currently suffer from a severe lack of research funding...