McLaughlin-Rotman Center for Global Health

Historic ‘Grand Challenge’ launched: Create low-cost devices for rapid disease diagnosis

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 16-Dec-2011 Grand Challenges Canada and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation invest almost $32 million in the discovery and development of

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Smelly socks could be a key to preventing malaria deaths in the developing world

Grand Challenges Canada, Toronto 13 Jul 11 Fredros Okumu, Tanzania Tanzanian researchers are awarded a two-year grant to further develop a device that uses human foot odor to

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Studies detail triumphs, troubles of African innovators creating products for local health needs

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health 12 December 2010 Africans strengthen ability to meet health needs in sub-Sahara with homegrown science solutions, but many products stagnate

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Global health vs. global wealth: Looming choice for health firms in developing countries

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health 14 September 2010 The lure of greater profits elsewhere in the world may divert bio-pharmaceutical firms in developing countries from

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Cheaper drugs, vaccines forecast as collaborations grow between developing countries’ biotech firms

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health 10 May 2010 ‘South-South’ biotech collaborations boost health, economies: Study The availability of more affordable drugs, vaccines and diagnostics that

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Finishing the job of polio eradication worldwide is an ethical obligation: Experts

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health Apr 20, 2010 55th anniversary of first polio vaccine Failure to pursue eradication of polio worldwide given the capacity and

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China a rising star in regenerative medicine despite world skepticism of stem cell therapies

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health University Health Network / University of Toronto 8-Jan-2010 Chinese researchers have become the world’s fifth most prolific contributors to peer-reviewed

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Powerful new world alliance of global health researchers announce landmark pact on priorities

16-Nov-2009 Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases Agencies managing 80 percent of global public health research funding set first priorities for common, concerted efforts on heart

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Tap wealth of local products emerging to fight ‘neglected’ diseases of poor: study

McLaughlin-Rotman Center for Global Health 3 Nov 2009 Experts propose ‘Global Health Accellerator’ to help new drugs, diagnostics, vaccines reach distant markets Research firms in

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Health biotech firms with developing country partners better postitioned to innovate, prosper

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health 9 Sep 2009 Lower manufacturing, clinical trial, R&D costs of developing country partners equal major opportunities to advance global health,

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Biomarkers in blood could aid diagnosis of crippling, often fatal forms of malaria

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health University of Toronto / University Health Network 7-Dec-2008 Canadian researchers have identified protein biomarkers that shed new light on the

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International health experts to enlist the public in war on African malaria

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health University of Toronto / University Health Network 20-Apr-2008 British entrepreneur, 25, created world’s top soccer Web site; now teams with

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China’s Health Biotech Industry: An Asian Dragon is Growing

McLaughlin Rotman Centre for Global Health University of Toronto / University Health Network 7-Jan-2008 Government funds innovation but venture capital needed; Wary investors ‘need to

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Curbing world’s most fatal diseases: consensus created by health experts offers global prescription

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health Toronto 21-Nov-2007 20 ‘Grand Challenges’ in chronic non-communicable diseases, 1st agreed roadmap to reduce rising toll of slow killer illnesses

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Pioneering study catalogs ethical issues of scientific research in developing world

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, Toronto 10 Sep 07 The first comprehensive examination of the ethical, social and cultural (ESC) challenges faced by major science

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India’s biotech industry emerging as world innovator, collaborator, competitor

McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health / Program on Life Sciences, Ethics and Policy 9-Apr-2007 India’s health biotech firms are emerging as a major global player,

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Replacing insulin is top-ranked breakthrough foreseen for health in developing world

11-Sep-2006 University of Toronto Joint Center for Bioethics Experts rank top 10 ways of improving health in poor countries from emerging stem cell and related

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