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For two days, innovation in synthetic and bio-based fine chemicals will be in the focus of experts who meet at Chemspec Europe in Cologne (20-21 …

Vincent O’Neill has been appointed senior vice president and chief medical officer of BioXcel Therapeutics (NASDAQ: BTAI). O’Neill had been serving as chief medical officer of the Branford, CT, company on a consulting basis since last July. His experience also includes senior roles at Genentech, Sanofi (NYSE: SNY), GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK), and Mirna Therapeutics. Earlier this year, BioXcel completed an IPO to finance clinical testing on a pair of drugs it found with the help of its artificial intelligence technology.

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[Source: Research & Innovation] For patients with rare genetic mutations of the debilitating disease cystic fibrosis, there are few options for effective treatment. EU-funded researchers are working to meet their needs, using new developments in personalised medicine to advance the testing of novel and promising drugs.

Every day, farmers around the world use GMOs to help combat threats to food and the environment. Whether helping to protect crop yields against plant diseases, weeds, pests, or to reduce water use, GMOs are one of modern agriculture’s many innovations that allow farmers to grow more food with fewer resources. A new blog post at the GMO Answers Medium page show exactly how:

1. Research into GMO bananas could help save the crop in Africa, where is it a staple in the diet and under attack from disease
2. Golden Rice, a GMO fortified rice is int,ended to address Vitamin A deficiency (VAD), a serious disease which is estimated to affect 250 million preschool-age children around the world.
3. The GMO Hawaiian papaya has helped save an important industry for Hawaiians since it came to the U.S. market in 1998.

To learn more about how these GMOs are helping find solutions to food problems around the globe, visit the GMO Answers Medium page.

The race to use gene therapy to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a progressive, deadly genetic disease that affects boys, is heating up this week. The FDA just cleared Solid Biosciences to resume clinical testing of a Duchenne gene therapy, a day before Sarepta Therapeutics will report human clinical data from a rival treatment that also uses the approach.

Solid (NASDAQ: SLDB) said this morning that it can restart IGNITE DMD, an early-stage study testing its experimental Duchenne gene therapy SGT-001. The FDA halted the study in March after Solid reported that a patient dosed with the gene therapy was… Read more »

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[Source: Research & Innovation] Official Austrian EU Council Presidency Conference
Background and goals
The purpose of the conference is to bring valuation (i.e. the provision of added value through SSH) and impact contributions of SSH research to transformative, mission- and challenges-oriented national and European research and innovation agendas to the forefront, to openly reflect and structurally discuss the topic in order to make it visible, debatable, verifiable and usable!
Target audience
The conference aims to engage around 350 participants from all over Europe and international partner countries. It targets policy-makers from the field of science and research, public research funding agencies, researchers from SSH and arts-based research as well as researchers from other disciplinary background, representatives from business and the social economy, media representatives and civil society organisations.
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BIO’s International Convention was packed with compelling keynote speeches, and dozens of fireside chats and breakout sessions featuring global biotech and pharma leaders who discussed everything from trends in biotech dealmaking to the latest on Capitol Hill.

But it’s not just the pursuit of the next breakthrough medicine or technology that our industry is focused on – we’re looking for the next brilliant scientist or savvy entrepreneur to help bring these cures across the finish line. And when Shaness Grenald, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the department of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins University stopped by the BIO Buzz Center, it became clear that the future of our industry is brighter than ever before.

Shaness is part of the Scientist Mentoring and Diversity Program (SMDP), a component of the International Center for Professional Development (ICDP) which is a one year career mentoring program that pairs ethnically diverse students and early career researchers with industry mentors, who typically work at companies in the medical technology, biotechnology and consumer healthcare industries. Check out the video below to learn more about her story.

Also making headlines at BIO 2018 was Sajeev Kohli – an 11^th grade student from Waterloo, Ontario who was named the grand prize winner of the International BioGENEius Challenge. Each year, this premier competition for high school students recognizes outstanding research and innovation in biotechnology, which is judged by a group of academic and industry experts.

Sajeev’s’s research on recruiting endogenous proteins for site-specific transport as a novel gene carrier design stood out among the impressive research from his 15 fellow finalists and along with the top honor, Sajeev was rewarded with a cash prize of $7,500. Watch the video below to learn more about his efforts.

Over the course of Convention, the BIO Buzz Center captured incredible stories from both current and future leaders in biotechnology. You can view all the videos on YouTube by clicking here.

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We know that the world is round because of science. We have an exceptional understanding of how gravity works, thanks to science. We also know that GMOs are safe for human consumption because of science. According to a Pew Center poll, 88 percent of scientists believe genetically engineered foods are safe. That’s more than the percentage of scientists who believe global warming is the result of human activity (87 percent).

However, just like there are some outliers in the “world is round” consensus (albeit NBA player Kyrie Irving is not a scientist), there are those who ignore the science and claim GMOs are bad for human consumption.

As Steven Novella recounts in a piece for Neurologica Blog, French researcher Gilles-Éric Séralini is one of those outliers. In 2012, Seralini concluded that GMOs are unsafe for human consumption based on a study he conducted on rats consuming GM corn. A year later, the study had to be retracted for not meeting scientific standards. As Novella notes, “Séralini’s study was terrible.”

It immediately came under intense criticism. Specifically, the study had small sample size, and used a strain of rats known to have a high background rate of tumors. The data, therefore, was full of noise and was essentially uninterpretable. This is probably the reason for the lack of statistical analysis – because there were no significant findings.

Even so, for anti-GMO activists, the study was reliable enough and credible – after all, it perfectly aligned with their beliefs. But for those that trust science, Novella argues the best way to truly tell science from fiction is replication:

And when researchers tried to replicate Séralini’s study – in three separate attempts – the scientific consensus prevailed:

Three transparent and more rigorous studies all showing no negative effects of rodents consuming GMO corn. That is the problem with spurious findings from poor-quality studies – they tend not to replicate. They don’t replicate because the results were never real.

Moreover, the reason the scientific community agrees that GMOs are safe is because the studies proving this claim have been replicated thousands of times.

There have been over 2000 studies, carried out in many different countries by many different research teams, and reviewed by many different scientific organizations, with a clear consensus that there is no evidence that existing GMOs pose any health risk. With all of this evidence, there are a few outliers, one of which being Séralini’s research. Now his findings have been directly refuted.

Nevertheless, Novella understands that, like those that believe the world is flat, there will always be those that don’t follow the science on GMOs.

I hope this matters to the general public, but of course it won’t have an affect on those with a dedicated anti-GMO ideology. People seem to have no problem cherry picking a few outlier studies that agree with their position, and dismissing hundreds or thousands of studies that disagree with them.

Read Steven Novella’s full piece at Neurologica blog here.

[Source: http://ec.europa.eu/health/ageing/innovation/index_en.htm] Identifier: H2020-CS2-CFP08-2018-01Pillar: Societal ChallengesOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)Modification Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018Latest information: Release 3 of the Questions & Answers document was added on 15 June2018. See the “Additional Documents” section inside thetopic areas below.