Current Seminars
29/11/2011 - 18:30 -
Intelligent Medical Devices C. difficile Assay: Next Steps?
Clostridium difficile is a bacterium that causes severe diarrhea through disruption of normal intestinal flora in the gut. This bacterium contributes to one of the leading causes of hospital acquired infections affecting over 300,000 patients in Canada each year. Of these patients, 5% have severe disease leading to colectomy,...
22/11/2011 - 18:30 -
Wireless Glucose Monitoring in Type I Diabetes Patients
Diabetes is a chronic disease affecting nearly 26 million people in the United States and this number continues to grow. Approximately 5-10% of these patients have Type 1 Diabetes resulting in the inability of pancreatic beta cells to produce insulin, a hormone required in the regulation of carbohydrate metabolism. The regulation of...
15/11/2011 - 18:30 -
India: Marketing Yervoy for Prostate Cancer
By: Team bioLOGIC (Peter Le, Sandeep Sehgal, Hina Abbas and Jean Frederic Comeau)
Large population, rapid economic growth, and talented workforce at low costs have attracted multinational companies to India. Furthermore, economic development and increasing urbanization in India has led people to adapt unhealthy Western lifestyles, and thus heart...
08/11/2011 - 18:30 -
Brazil: Marketing GSK's Benlysta for Lupus
Belimumab (Benlysta®), a fully human monoclonal antibody that inhibits B-lymphocyte stimulator (BLyS) developed by Human Genome Sciences and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), is the first lupus drug to gain FDA approval in 56 years. Benlysta® was approved by the FDA is March 2011 and is indicated for the treatment of active, autoantibody-positive,...
01/11/2011 - 18:30 -
Johnson & Johnson’s Cypher drug eluting Stent: Improvement and Patent infringement
Team Inno5: Xin Hang, Jessica Morden, Faizan Rahim, Jonathan Sawatsky, Olga Vorobyova
Approximately a million coronary stent insertions are performed annually worldwide to treat coronary heart disease. Drug-eluting stents (DES) were developed to address the issues of thrombosis and restenosis associated with bare metal...