Derek Lowe, an Arkansan by birth, got his BA from Hendrix College and his PhD in organic chemistry from Duke before spending time in Germany on a Humboldt Fellowship on his post-doc. He's worked for several major pharmaceutical companies since 1989 on drug discovery projects against schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, diabetes, osteoporosis and other diseases.
To contact Derek email him directly: derekb.lowe@gmail.com
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There are a lot of interesting blogs that I need to catch up with, so here we go. First off is On Pharma, which focuses on the manufacturing end of things, with a lot of good stuff about FDA approvals and the clinical world. Note this recent post on the "cGMP Priesthood", which is something I fortunately don't have to deal with.
Life of a Lab Rat is a view from the bench in Sydney (no, not the beach, the bench), and Pipette Monkeys provides one from Heidelberg. Is This Thing On? has a biotech/bioinformatic perspective, and I've been wondering when someone was finally going to invent the Eastern Blot. And finally, the group at Nobel Intent is always worth checking.
5. Cryptic Ned on July 16, 2006 12:49 PM writes...
Boy, I read about five posts about "cGMP" on that site before I realized that it wasn't talking about cGMP. I was wondering why I hadn't heard before about how important this particular second messenger was as a drug target.
1. Kyle Finchsigmate on July 14, 2006 2:57 AM writes...
That's it buddy. You're on the list.
Permalink to Comment2. Black Knight on July 14, 2006 5:39 AM writes...
I second that emotion.
Permalink to Comment3. JSinger on July 14, 2006 8:41 AM writes...
There are periodic attempts to claim "Eastern blot" for various post-translational modifications, but it never really caught on.
Permalink to Comment4. Eva on July 14, 2006 9:12 AM writes...
You would not want to know how often I get visitors through Google looking for "what is an eastern blot".
Permalink to Comment5. Cryptic Ned on July 16, 2006 12:49 PM writes...
Boy, I read about five posts about "cGMP" on that site before I realized that it wasn't talking about cGMP. I was wondering why I hadn't heard before about how important this particular second messenger was as a drug target.
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