MKR Clinical Research Consultants, Inc

05/29/2019

http://mkrclinicalconsultants.com/statement-by-fda-commissioner-scott-gottlieb-m-d-director-of-fdas-center-for-drug-evaluation-and-research-janet-woodcock-m-d-and-director-of-fdas-center-for-biologics-evaluation/

For more than 30 years, the FDA has supported patients’ access to investigational medical products for treatment, outside of participation in a clinical trial, when appropriate. The FDA remains deeply committed to this effort. Helping to facilitate access to promising medicines for patients with s...

01/27/2019

https://www.curetoday.com/articles/first-patient-receives-investigational-treatment-under-right-to-try-law

A man with glioblastoma has received Gliovac (ERC1671) under legislation allowing for the terminally ill to try experimental drugs that have passed preliminary FDA testing.

11/14/2018

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/research/discovery-cancer-kill-code-could-inspire-new-treatments

Scientists at Northwestern University have discovered a “kill code” in every cell of the body that’s triggered by chemotherapy and that causes cancerous cells to self-destruct. What’s more, they’ve learned enough about the code that they’ve figured out how to trigger it without chemo—a...

11/14/2018

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/research/gsk-pancreatic-cancer-drug-heads-to-phase-1-combo-merck-s-keytruda-after-positive-mouse

GlaxoSmithKline’s experimental drug GSK095, a RIP1 inhibitor, is designed to work in tandem with checkpoint-inhibiting medicines in the hopes of empowering the immune system to launch a more aggressive attack against tumors than it does with checkpoint inhibitors alone. Early results from a trial ...

11/14/2018

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/research/a-universal-flu-vaccine-from-llamas

Broadly neutralizing antibodies have inspired vaccines against highly variable pathogens. Scientists from the Scripps Research Institute and Janssen, among others, have applied that idea to developing a universal flu vaccine from llamas.

11/14/2018

MKR Clinical Research Consultants is in need of contract CRAs in the USA and the UK with ophthalmology experience:

· Retina experience is preferred
· Located in the USA and the UK
· anticipated start-up activities - 1st Q 2019
· currently reviewing and submitting CVs


If you, or anyone you know, is interested, please forward your CV (along with availability and hourly rate) to Michele Rubine at [email protected]

06/01/2018

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/research/eye-implant-made-from-stem-cells-could-halt-macular-degeneration

A team of scientists led by the University of Southern California’s Roski Eye Institute built a retinal implant from embryonic stem cells, and they have early but encouraging evidence from a small clinical trial that it may improve visual functioning in people with advanced dry age-related macular...

06/01/2018

https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm606799.htm

FDA permits marketing of new endoscopic device for treating gastrointestinal bleeding

06/01/2018

https://www.mddionline.com/combining-ai-and-cgm-make-bionic-pancreas

Beta Bionics receives IDE approval from FDA to begin a clinical trial testing the iLet Bionic Pancreas System.