Commercial sponsorship reaches new heights

Hsp90 reaches new heights

Introduction Hsp90 (heat-shock protein 90) is an abundant molecular chaperone, but its function seems to be restricted to the folding of proteins involved in cell signalling, such as transcription factors and protein kinases. This restricted set of ‘clients’ (see Fig. 1) makes Hsp90 an attractive target for cancer therapeutics. As an anti-Hsp90 drug is now in clinical trials, the meeting was re...

Whole-brain imaging reaches new heights (and lengths)

Advances in microscopy and sample preparation have led to the first ever mapping of individual neurons in the whole mouse brain.

Peripheral blood stem cells reach new heights.

Conference Sponsorship

Cosponsors Artificial Intelligence Journal Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación National Science Foundation (NSF) Universitat de Barcelona Knowtion TCA Software Solutions Yahoo! Labs Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGUAR) Agreement Technologies Project Alear Project Google NICTA Institute for Computational Sustainability (ICS) iSOCO ECCAI ESADE Business School IBM Research M...

Sponsorship in non-commercial clinical trials: definitions, challenges and the role of Good Clinical Practices guidelines

BACKGROUND Non-commercial clinical research plays an increasingly essential role for global health. Multiple partners join in international consortia that operate under the limited timeframe of a specific funding period. One organisation (the sponsor) designs and carries out the trial in collaboration with research partners, and is ultimately responsible for the trial's scientific, ethical, reg...