A Conversation with Jay Keasling, PhD

Jay Keasling The Promise of Synthetic Biology

10,000 compounds must be introduced into the drug-discovery pipeline. On average, it takes $802 million and 10 to 15 years to develop a successful drug. Given this very low success rate and the incredibly high costs, drug companies must introduce as many drug candidates into their pipelines as possible. Natural products have been important sources of drug leads; as much as 60 percent of success...

Jacques Banchereau, PHD: a conversation with Michael Ramsay, MD, president of Baylor Research Institute.

Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent) 2006;19:347–362 D r. Jacques Banchereau (Figure 1) is director of the Baylor Institute for Immunology Research (BIIR) and holds the Caruth Chair for Transplantation Immunology Research. He received his PhD in biochemistry from the University of Paris in 1980 and later served as director of the Schering-Plough Laboratory for Immunological Research in Dardilly, near Lyon...

Philosophy, Art and Critique: A (short) conversation with the “other”

The article sketches a nexus between philosophy, art (poetry) and critique with a particular emphasis on the contribution of classical Muslim philosophers. At the same time, it demonstrates how luminaries such as Omar Khayyam and Ibn Sina, contributed to the renewal of philosophy as a freedom seeking exercise and as a means to pursue happiness through knowledge. In the second&nbs...

Jay Johnson

It is seldom possible to plausibly define and observe a pool of potential entrants to a market. This study overcomes that limitation by taking advantage of an opportunity to reasonably define the potential entrants into MTBE production, a rapidly growing environmental product from the mid-1980’s to mid-1990’s. Potential entrants are identified as those firms having access to specific assets tha...

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