管家婆免费开奖大全 professors win Prix Galien 2019 Award for pharmaceutical research
Published: November 21, 2019
Susan George and Brian O'Dowd of the 管家婆免费开奖大全's department of pharmacology and toxicology received the Prix Galien 2019 Canada Research Award this month 鈥 often described as the equivalent of a Nobel Prize in pharmaceutical research.
The 管家婆免费开奖大全 professors were recognized for their invention of a new method to discover drugs that direct receptor proteins to the cell nucleus. If interacting drugs are present, the receptor proteins remain at the cell surface.
George and O'Dowd have also identified 70 receptor proteins.
鈥淚t is very gratifying to me to realize our drug discovery invention will be used to discover useful therapies,鈥 O'Dowd is quoted saying in . 鈥淚 lost my 23-year-old son Paul to cancer, and some of these new receptor proteins will prove essential for improved treatments.鈥
The 管家婆免费开奖大全 researchers shared the prize with scientists from the Seattle-based biopharmaceutical company, Omeros.
