Category Archives: Stories

Featuring Dr. Pat Carr

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)-New Twists on Root Causes

Teacher, Mentor and Friend    Dr. Pat Carr has been a key figure in helping shape the direction of my company. He has a gift for communicating the nuances of his research and coaching me on how to best serve labs like his. Based on these interactions, it came as no surprise [...]

The Quest for Better Pain Therapies

G- protein coupled receptor (GPCR) and Drug Responsiveness

About Dr. Laura Bohn 
 Background:
Spring 2009-Associate Professor (tenured) at The Scripps Research Institute, Department of Molecular Therapeutics, Jupiter, FL.
10/2007- Associate Professor (tenured), The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Departments of Pharmacology and Psychiatry, Program in Pharmacogenomics

8/2003-9/2007 Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University College of Medicine,
1/1999–8/2003 Post-Doc/Assistant Research Professor. [...]

Featuring Dr. Laura Bohn

January’s Story: Decoupling GPCR Pain Therapies from Destructive Side Effects. 
We are pleased to have Dr. Laura Bohn as our “coming soon” featured researcher. 
She caught my attention when she referenced one of our  Opioid Receptor Antibodies in the publication: C. E. Groer, K. Tidgewell, R. A. Moyer, W. W. Harding, R. B. Rothman, T. E. Prisinzano, and L. M. Bohn. An [...]

Making Connections that Count

Building Neuroscience Value Networks
For this month’s backstory, I am excited to introduce Dr. Ijad Madisch and the Networking Site he founded, ResearchGATE corporation (www.researchgate.net). 
Madisch, 27, an M.D. and Ph.D. virologist, says he and some friends came up with the idea when he moved from his native Germany for a research traineeship at Harvard Medical School in [...]

The Sensory and Autonomic Side of Spinal Cord Injury

About Dr. Matt Ramer

2001-Present-Associate Professor-University of British Columbia and ICORD
Post Doc-King’s College London
PhD.-Physiology-Queen’s College Kingston, Ontario

Matt Ramer Website
Awards and Funding
Email: ramer@icord.org
Lab Members: A. Gaudet, J. Inskip, A. Scott, L. Soril
Finding Fixes for Injured Nerves
I first became aware of Matt’s research in early 2005. This was catalyzed when he kindly shared excellent IHC images his lab [...]

The First Story is Here!

Dr. Mark Behlke and 27mer DsiRNAs
 
I am pleased to be featuring Dr. Mark Behlke’s story as our first. This was an easy choice because our main characters, Mark and the 27mer DsiRNAs (Dicer Substrate Small Interfering RNAs), are rising stars in small interfering (siRNA) based research.
 
siRNAtechnology addresses the need for Biosciences Researchers and Clinicians [...]

Announcing our first story: Dr. Mark Behlke

Story to be published July 11, 2008.
Dr. Behlke, his team and collaborators are working on improving the delivery of Dicer-substrate siRNAs (DsiRNAs) in vitro and in vivo.
His work has helped establish siRNA technology as a viable tool for drug development.
Please see the article titled RNAi Researchers Galvanized by Advances: Technology’s Viability in Drug Development Is [...]