MIMM 387 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Mayo Clinic, Ciclosporin, Pharmaceutical Industry
26 Apr 2019
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There is money to be made from universities. That is not the case in canada they haven"t loosened up over the past 10 years. Dr. murgita"s story of merging science + business: He started by working in a lab for 10-15 years. He kept meeting ceos who told him that he eventually had to drop the lab work, to work with people to attract big pharma companies. He met ceo of big swedish pharm company sweden uni + pharma world work very closely together. Tested new products long before they landed on market he saw advantages. Mayo clinic: found an onco-fetal anogens found that it was immunosuppressant. Today- the only immune suppressive drug that is on the market is cyclosporin a = really nasty and toxic drug to be avoided at all costs. So he thought that he could use this protein to make a new drug.
