/newsroom/taxonomy/term/1089/all en /newsroom/channels/news/safer-more-efficient-drug-discovery-356443 <p>UUÖ±²¥ researchers have discovered a safer and more efficient technique for testing new drugs while they are in development.</p> Wed, 27 Mar 2024 03:27:58 +0000 lawrence.chiang@mail.mcgill.ca 310392 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mapping-international-drug-use-looking-wastewater-301944 <p>Wastewater-based epidemiology is a rapidly developing scientific discipline with the potential for monitoring close to real-time, population-level trends in illicit drug use. By sampling a known source of wastewater, such as a sewage influent to a wastewater treatment plant, scientists can estimate the quantity of drugs used in a community from the measured levels of illicit drugs and their metabolites excreted in urine.</p> Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:36:19 +0000 amelia.souffrant@mail.mcgill.ca 188089 at /newsroom /newsroom/marco-leyton Tue, 26 Nov 2019 18:04:26 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 189292 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/why-bar-needs-be-raised-human-clinical-trials-265437 <p>Standards for authorizing first-time trials of drugs in humans are lax, and should be strengthened in several ways, UUÖ±²¥ researchers argue in a paper published today in <em>Nature</em>.</p> Mon, 30 Jan 2017 15:02:45 +0000 christopher.chipello@mcgill.ca 26659 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/fight-tumors-and-infections-targeted-drugs-257962 <p><i>By Cynthia Lee</i></p> <p>Some drug regimens, such as those designed to eliminate tumors, are notorious for nasty side effects. Unwanted symptoms are often the result of medicine going where it’s not needed and harming healthy cells. To minimize this risk, researchers in Quebec have developed nanoparticles that only release a drug when exposed to near-infrared light, which doctors could beam onto a specific site. Their report appears in the <em>Journal of the American Chemical Society</em>.</p> Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:17:23 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25106 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/5m-malaria-tuberculosis-drug-discovery-research-257396 <p>University of Toronto and UUÖ±²¥ scientists are leading an international partnership to discover new and improved drug treatments for tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases  -- thanks to a contribution from Merck Canada Inc., as well as an additional $5 million supplement to a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The new funding brings the total investment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to nearly US $12 million since 2012.</p> Thu, 17 Dec 2015 20:34:42 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25046 at /newsroom