Labroots and the Drug Discovery planning committee are pleased to announce the 4th annual event in the Drug Discovery & Development Virtual Event Series....
GenScript’s new DNA Encoded Chemical Library (DECL) kit will revolutionize your pharmaceutical hit discovery and chemical biology research. In partnership with a leading technology exp...
COVID-19 has changed the way companies operate, the way employees perform their work and the way both are adapting to the environment. In this session, we'll cover both macro industry tr...
As pharmaceutical companies have reduced or eliminated neuroscience drug development due to high costs and low approval rates, the economic and healthcare burden of CNS disorders in the Unit...
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease affecting approximately 1 in 50,000 people worldwide. About 10% of these cases are found to have a hereditary component, bu...
G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) remain major drug targets, despite an incomplete understanding of how they signal through 16 non-visual G-protein signal transducers (collectively named t...
The COVID-19 pandemic changed all of our lives in 2020. Development of a COVID-19 vaccine required some re-thinking of the standard vaccine development paradigm. The webinar will cover noncl...
There are approximately 2000 distinct lipids which are believed to influence health and disease in humans. Their molecular interplay with genes, proteins and metabolites is strongly affected...
The development of different classes of immunotherapies that target cancer cells continues to be a rapidly growing area of research. The development of diagnostic tests which can predict pat...
Platform based therapeutics and vaccines offer a unique opportunity to simplify and streamline the drug development process. Moderna has taken the approach of harnessing the power of mRNA as...
Date: February 23, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST) The analysis of serum free light chains (FLC) is now standard of care in the screening, diagnosis, and monitoring of patients suspec...
The concept of the 3Rs remains more prevalent than ever in global discussions related to humane animal use in aspects of research, teaching and testing. The 3Rs serve as a touchstone, in ter...
Date: February 10, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST) Uncovering the interactions between the immune system and cancer cells or pathogens is key for understanding and controlling both ca...
Maintaining the 3R’s is a critical component of establishing effective training to researchers and others working with animals. Training in a virtual setting easily allows for reductio...
Date: February 10, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PST), 10:00 am (EST) In this talk today we will discuss a new approach to profile influenza proteins. Influenza vaccines typically consist of either a...
Primates have been essential in unlocking novel immune mechanisms that have driven development of groundbreaking new drugs in infectious disease and transplantation, amongst others related t...
Many of the most debilitating and life-threatening diseases are associated with the central nervous system. Some, such as neurodegenerative diseases, predominately afflict our aging populati...
Handling laboratory animals can stimulate stress and anxiety that negatively impacts animal welfare and introduces a substantial confounding factor in many areas of scientific research. Howe...
Organoids are emerging tools to study homeostatic function and disease of human organs. This technology has now for the first time been extended to reptiles by establishing cultures of the s...
Learning Objectives: 1. Define an effective in vitro tissue model 2. Identify the features of a microvasculature 3. Explain the approaches for building in vitro tissue models...
Key to the development of the HUB Organoid Technology was the discovery of LGR5+ intestinal adult stem cells by the Clevers’ lab. With the identification of these stem cells, we were a...
Since the first introduction of the 3R concept in 1959 by Russell and Burch, there has been an increasing interest in finding alternatives to animal testing for ethical and economic reasons....
Remarkable progress in life science and technology in the past century has advanced our fundamental understanding of the human body beyond our imagination. The ever-increasing knowledge of h...
The International Consortium for Innovation and Quality in Pharmaceutical Development (IQ) Microphysiological Systems (MPS) Affiliate is a group of pharmaceutical industry scientists who see...
Traditional drug discovery often begins with simple biochemical and transformed cellular models, advances to more complex animal models in late discovery phases, and often does not ‘se...
Pain management includes the choice of analgesia agents, their dose, administration method, duration and frequency of treatment, and a pain-monitoring scheme for each individual animal. Insu...
Learning Objectives: 1. Methods on how to aseptically use foil (Reynolds Wrap) in rodent surgery 2. Methods on how aseptically use cling film (Press N' Seal) in rodent surgery 3. Long-te...
There is growing concern about the reliability of biomedical research results. Poor experimental design, inappropriate analysis methods and incomplete reporting have all contributed to incon...
Date: February 9, 2020 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST) 90% of breast cancer mortality is caused by distant metastasis, a process that involves both dissemination of cancer cells to distant...