LInks to Additional Biotechnology and Related Resources
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Quertle - This is a very useful search engine that combines MEDLINE/Pubmed, full text documents from BioMed Central, and News. Instructions for using Quertle and how it differs from PubMed can be found here.
Patent Storm - Offers full text US patents and patent applications form the US Patent Office for free.
Trade Associations
Alliance for Regenerative Medicine - This is the lobbying group for the stem cell (regenerative medicine) proponents, consisting of biotech, patient, and academic organizations.
BIO - Biotechnology Industry Organization. This is the lobbying organization for the biotechnology industry.
GphA - Generic Pharmaceutical Association. This is the lobbying group for companies that make generic medicines.
PhRMA - Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. This is the lobbying group for the pharmaceutical industry.
Pharmaceutical Security Institute - Not for profit trade group that assesses, tracks, and fights the flow of counterfeit medicines around the world.
Other Websites of Interest
Access to Medicine Index - This is an international non-profit organization based in the Netherlands. It ranks pharmaceutical companies with respect to their efforts to provide drugs and other resources for neglected diseases that primarily afflict people in impoverished parts of the world.
American Type Culture Collection - A private, non-profit biological resource center and resource organization focused on the acquisition, authentication, production, preservation, development, and distribution of standard reference microorganisms, cell lines, and other research materials.
Asian Cancer Research Group - An independent, not-for-profit company established by Eli Lilly, Merck, and Pfizer to accelerate research on commonly diagnosed cancers in Asia.
Biotechnology Institute - Institute with a mission to promote biotechnology and its medicinal, agricultural, and environmental applications.
Crimson Project - Enables high-throughput, IRB compliant specimen acquisition for medical centers and research enterprises.
Drugs for Neglected Disease Initiative - This is a collaborative, non profit drug research and development organization that is developing new treatments for malaria, visceral leishmaniasis, sleeping sickness, and Chagas disease. Works in partnership with industry, academia, and non-government organizations.
Genetic Alliance - Nonprofit health advocacy group; network includes more than 1000 disease specific organizations as well as companies, universities, government agencies, and public policy organizations.
Medicines for Malaria Venture - This is a not-for-profit public-private partnership established as a foundation in Switzerland in 1999. As the name indicates, it is focused on developing new medicines to treat malaria.
PLoS One - An interactive open-access journal for the communication of peer-reviewed scientific and medical research.
Public Citizen Health Research Group - Division of Public Citizen that is focused on promoting safer drugs and public health.
Scientific American World View - A global biotechnology perspective, focused on IP, intensity, enterprise support, education and workforce, and foundations that support biotechnology.
Science Commons - Creates strategies and tools that are designed to make web enabled scientific research more efficient. Their stated ultimate goal is to speed the translation of data into discoveries. One specific project is focused on improving the Material Transfer Agreement process.
Therapeutic Targets Database - Searchable database of drugs, drug targets, and specific pathways, including information on clinical trials, approved drugs, and experimental drugs made against targets (61 protein classes and 140 drug therapeutic classes).
Science Societies and Associations
American Association for the Advancement of Science - Primary organization in the US whose mission is to "advance science and serve society"; publishes the journal Science weekly. Founded in 1848, it operates as an international non-profit organization.
American Association for Cancer Research - Mission is to prevent and cure cancer through research, education, communication, and collaboration.
American Society of Clinical Oncology - Professional organization for doctors who treat cancer.
FASEB - The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology - A coalition of societies that serve the interests of biomedical and life scientists, with a focus on public policy issues.
Government Resources
Bayh-Dole Legislation - Website highlights the role the 1980 Bayh-Dole amendment had on enabling academic institutions to retain title to their inventions developed using federal funds.
The Biomarkers Consortium - A public-private partnership that endeavors to develop, validate, and qualify biological markers (biomarkers) in an effort to enable the detection, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of various diseases.
The Cancer Genome Atlas - A project aimed at understanding the molecular basis of cancer using genome analysis and related technologies.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - Covers a variety of health information including disease information, healthy living, etc.
Clinical Trials - A registry of on ongoing and completed federal and privately supported clinical trials; the site is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. Allows searching by condition, drug, sponsor, and location.
Critical Path Initiative - A strategic plan enacted by the FDA to drive innovation in the way that drugs are developed, evaluated, manufactured, and used.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - Information on drugs, drug approvals, medical devices, vaccines, biologics, cosmetics, food, tobacco, and public health.
Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside (i2b2) - NIH funded National Center for Biomedical Computing. It is developing tools to allow researchers to use existing clinical data for discovery research.
The International HapMap Project - Overseen by the National Human Genome Research Institute, this project is focused on identifying genetic variations between various individuals and using this information to understand how these differences contribute to health and disease.
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) - Hosts numerous databases that can be queried for free.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - Offers advice on putting together presentations for small business innovation research (SBIR) and small business technology transfer research (STTR) grants. The grants sites themselves can also be reached directed at SIBR and STTR.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) - The nation's medical research agency. Health information for consumers in addition to info on grants, research, and health news.
National Science Foundation (NSF) - Information on funding opportunities, awards, discoveries, news, publications, statistics, classroom resources, speeches and lectures. etc.
Pubmed - A service of the US National Library of Medicine that allows searching of Medline as well as a large number of life science journals.
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) - Information on applying for patents and searching the US patent database. Also includes info on trademarks and intellectual property law and policy.