Tag: Pharmacy

Interview & Opinion

“The most important thing is to encourage curiosity”

Interview: Hanna Gabriel

The Viennese start-up Proxygen has recently announced its collaboration with MSD, a US pharmaceutical group, which will invest up to 2.3 billion euros in the young Austrian biotech company, a spin-off of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, over the next few years. In return, Proxygen plans to develop so-called “molecular glue degraders” for medical applications […] Continue reading ““The most important thing is to encourage curiosity””

Projects

Important jigsaw piece for the therapy of rare genetic diseases discovered

Many human cell types have a precise calcium uptake mechanism. One gene in which part of the blueprint for these so-called calcium channels is encoded is also partly to blame for a rare human developmental disorder that triggers epilepsy and autism. A research group from Innsbruck is exploring these links and working on a potential […] Continue reading “Important jigsaw piece for the therapy of rare genetic diseases discovered”

On the road

Grüezi, Hoi and Salü – Greetings from Zurich!

By Corina Madreiter-Sokolowski

Armed with a Schrödinger fellowship and her cat, Corina Madreiter-Sokolowski moved to Switzerland. At ETH Zurich, the pharmacist investigates ageing processes at molecular level. The research environment of this top-notch university made the young scientist realise the importance of networking and exchanges, as she reveals in her report for scilog. Continue reading “Grüezi, Hoi and Salü – Greetings from Zurich!”