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Pain Therapeutics, Inc. announced that an Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will review the REMOXY® New Drug Application (NDA), tentatively scheduled for Friday, August 5, 2016.  This is intended to be a joint meeting of the FDA's Anesthetic and Analgesic Drug Products Advisory Committee and Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee.

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Roche announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted accelerated approval to Tecentriq® (atezolizumab) for the treatment of people with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma (mUC) who have disease progression during or following platinum-based chemotherapy, or whose disease has worsened within 12 months of receiving platinum-based chemotherapy before surgery (neoadjuvant) or after surgery (adjuvant). Urothelial carcinoma accounts for 90% of all bladder cancers and can also be found in the renal pelvis, ureter and urethra.

Research positions for B.Pharm/M.Pharm at Panjab University

The University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the Panjab University is a premier institution of Pharmaceutical Education and Research in the country. The institute has covered a long and glorious journey of 76 years starting from Lahore in 1944 and finally settling to the present campus in Chandigarh at the foothills of Himachal. In its travelogue, the institute crossed multiple milestones and continue to head ahead towards the well-defined goals. The elevation of the status from department to the level of an institute i.e. University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1994, and hosting of Indian Pharmaceutical Congress in the same year, two presidential honors of the Indian Pharmaceutical Congresses to its faculty members, a special recognition by the UGC by granting SAP in 1993 and COSIST in 1981 establishment of ICMR Advanced Centre for standardization of Drugs of Indian System of Medicine are some of the major hallmarks on the path treaded so far.

Application are invited for the post of Junior Research Fellowin GITAM University

Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management, popularly known as GITAM was founded in 1980 by an inspired group of eminent intellectuals and industrialists of Andhra Pradesh led by Dr. M.V.V.S.Murthi, Former Member of Parliament and popular philanthropist. Their mission was to set up a world-class technology and management institution in the picturesque city of Visakhapatnam to impart futuristic and comprehensive professional education of global standards with a high sense of discipline and social relevance in a serene and invigorating environment. The avowed objective of GITAM is to train qualified professionals to shoulder the responsibility of contributing to the development of India as a “Knowledge Society”.

Applications are invited for the position of project fellow to work on a major research project sanctioned by University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi, as below.

Post: Junior Research Fellow

Admission to Ph.D Program in CSIR-IMTECH

Director, Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH), invites exceptionally motivated candidates to appear for a walk-in interview on June 29, 2016 (Wednesday), (Reporting time 9.00 a.m. to 12 noon) for pursuing doctoral research at IMTECH under the aegis of the Ph.D. degree program being jointly run by IMTECH and the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi.  The candidates who have passed M.Sc. and cleared any of the following examination (with valid fellowship) are eligible to attend the interview. Kindly note that those candidates whose M.Sc. result is not declared till the date of the interview, the candidate must bring a certificate from the Head of the Department that he/she has passed M.Sc. without which the candidate will not be eligible for interview:

Genmab A/S announced that the Phase III POLLUX study (MMY3003) of daratumumab in combination with lenalidomide and dexamethasone versus lenalidomide and dexamethasone in patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma met the primary endpoint of improving progression free survival (PFS) at a pre-planned interim analysis (Hazard Ratio (HR) = 0.37 (95% CI 0.27-0.52), p < 0.0001).  Patients who received treatment with daratumumab in combination with lenalidomide and dexamethasone had a 63% reduction in risk of their disease progressing, compared to those who did not receive daratumumab. The median PFS for patients treated with daratumumab in combination with lenalidomide and dexamethasone has not been reached, compared to an estimated median PFS of 18.4 months for patients who received lenalidomide and dexamethasone alone.

2nd International conference on Bridging Innovations in Pharmaceutical, Health and Biosciences

About PARAMITA HEALTH CARE SOCIETY
Paramita Health Care Society has been working since 2007 in the domain of education and health and it organizes various educational events and health awareness programs regularly for the welfare of social lives whereas Innovare Academic Sciences: knowledge to innovation is amongst leading publication house of research journals of high repute in various fields. The group provides a platform for promoting and propagating sciences in various streams for enabling the budding scientist to explore discreet potential of innovations which may lead to newer discoveries and help in generating newer ideas, technologies and applications for a developed society and race.

Career in Reference Standards Evaluation at U.S. Pharmacopeia - Masters in Pharmacy or chemistry

The U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) is a scientific nonprofit organization that sets standards for the identity, strength, quality, and purity of medicines, food ingredients, and dietary supplements manufactured, distributed and consumed worldwide. USP’s drug standards are enforceable in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration, and these standards are used in more than 140 countries.

Post: Senior Manager: Reference Standards Evaluation

Career as Research Fellows at Queen's University Belfast - 02 posts

Queen's University Belfast (informally Queen's or QUB) is a public research university in Belfast, Northern Ireland.The university was chartered in 1845, and opened in 1849 as "Queen's College, Belfast", but has roots going back to 1810 and the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. The university forms the focal point of the Queen's Quarter area of the city, one of Belfast's four cultural districts. It offers academic degrees at various levels and across a broad subject range, with over 300 degree programmes available. Since 1 March 2014 Patrick Johnston has been the university’s 12th President and Vice-Chancellor. Its Chancellor is Thomas Moran.

Post: Research Fellows (2 posts)

PharmaQuiz- 43 | Find answers of PharmaQuiz - 42

ANSWERS of Previous PharmaQUIZ-42:

1.B   2.B    3.A   4.B    5.D

6.B    7.C    8.A    9.C    10.B

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