From a “Perfect Storm” to “Smooth Sailing”

A Perfect Storm

From the Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver (W.J.J.); the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (H.R.C.); the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, and the Department of Medicine, University of Mich...

Smooth Sailing for STEVIN

In this paper we report on the past evaluation of the joint Flemish-Dutch STEVIN programme in the field of HLT for Dutch (HLTD). STEVIN was a 11.4 M euro programme on HLT for Dutch that was jointly organised and financed by the Flemish and Dutch governments. The aim was to provide academia and industry with basic building blocks for a linguistic infrastructure for the Dutch language. An indepen...

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Biotech's Perfect Storm

The global financial crisis has hit biotech companies hard both in the US and Europe as venture capital dries up. Finding new sources of long-term financing for translating research into new therapeutics will be essential for maintaining innovation and new drug development by biotech companies.

The Zika Pandemic - A Perfect Storm?

The Zika virus, previously known as an uncommon zoonotic virus in Africa, has spread first to Southeast Asia and then to the Pacific islands and to the Americas causing a global health emergency due to the associated increase in children born with microcephaly and an increase in the incidence of Guillain-Barre syndrome. The explanation for what caused this virus, previously confined to a zoonot...