Pharma Reformulates
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"While invention might be where the Nobel Prize is created, innovation is where the money is."
WILLIAM F. BANHOLZER, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, DOW CHEMICAL – p. 25
December 7, 2009
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Highlights
Cover Story
Timely Transformation
Drug firms implement new business strategies to deflect mounting market pressures and accelerate into new geographies. (pp. 13-21, 16-17)
Government & Policy
Inherent Safety (Member Content)
Chemical industry pins hopes on senate in fight over facility security. (pp. 34-37)
Science & Technology
Tribology All Around
Meeting highlights how friction triggers molecular-scale changes in adhesive tape, cosmetics, and more. (pp. 47-49)
Table of Contents
News Of The Week
On To Copenhagen p. 7
Climate Change: World leaders to hammer out global response to limit greenhouse gases
ACC Bulks Up p. 8
Membership Drive: Trade group seeks smaller members as chemical industry's fortunes improve.
Screen Nets Self-Destruction Stoppers p. 8
Chemical Biology: Strategy finds selective ligands for rogue T cells.
Metalloprotein Made To Order p. 9
Bioinorganic Chemistry: Researchers construct metalloenzyme active site in another protein.
HIV Drugs p. 9
Indian manufacturers will adjust to new WHO guidelines.
Momentum For Chemical Control p. 10
TSCA: Senate panel examines toxic substances act, 13 states call for reform.
Customized Nanoparticles p. 10
Catalysis: Method endows platinum with benefits of solid- and solution-phase catalysts.
Business
The New Dow pp. 25-26 (Member Content)
After a painful year, company says it has the portfolio it needs for unprecedented expansion of its business.
Closed For Business pp. 28-29 (Member Content)
Scavenging shuttered chemical plants can be profitable, but not in this economy.
Nanosyn Acts Fast pp. 30-31 (Member Content)
Within months, the contract research firm entered a manufacturing joint venture and bought a plant.
Business Concentrates pp. 22-23 (Member Content)
- Big Firms Invest In Europe
- BASF and ExxonMobil Chemical have completed large European plant expansions on which construction began two years ago during better economic times...
- New Head For SOCMA …
- The Society of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates, a trade association representing specialty chemical makers, has named Lawrence D. Sloan as president and CEO...
- … And For Europe’s Competition Agency
- Spain’s Joaquín Almunia will take over as head of the European Union’s antitrust watchdog...
- Tetra Pak Will Buy Green Polyethylene
- Tetra Pak, a Swiss maker of cartons for milk, juice, and other beverages, will buy 5,000 metric tons per year of “green” polyethylene from Brazil’s Braskem...
- SABIC, Linde Launch α‑olefins Technology
- Saudi Basic Industries Corp. and Linde have started up a linear α-olefin (LAO) plant in Jubail, Saudi Arabia...
- Air Liquide Acquires Hydrogen Technology
- Air Liquide has acquired the Hydrogen Generation Module (HGM) technology from H2Gen Innovations...
- Covance Invests In Food Testing
- Contract research organization Covance plans to expand its microbiological food safety testing capabilities with a 30,000-sq-ft laboratory...
- Micromet Signs Deals With Bayer And Lonza
- German biotech firm Micromet will work with Bayer Schering Pharma to develop a new antibody against an undisclosed solid tumor target...
- Pfizer Inks Gaucher’s Deal With Protalix
- Pfizer and Israel’s Protalix Biotherapeutics will develop and commercialize taliglucerase alfa...
- Sasol Will Double Synthetic Wax
- Sasol is moving forward with a previously announced plan to double synthetic wax capacity at its Sasolburg, South Africa, site...
- PPG And Lignol Cooperate On Lignin
- British Columbia-based Lignol Energy will collaborate with PPG Industries to develop uses for high-purity lignin and lignin derivatives...
- Process R&D Institute Opens New Laboratory
- The Institute of Process Research & Development at the University of Leeds, in England, has opened a $6.6 million lab....
- AstraZeneca Licenses Depression Therapy
- AstraZeneca has licensed rights to Targacept’s TC-5214, a small-molecule treatment for major depressive disorder...
- Business Roundup
- China’s Ministry of Commerce, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Hakutsuru Sake Brewing, , Ineos ChloroVinyls, LyondellBasell Industries, Solvay, Forma Therapeutics, MedImmune, Jubilant Organosys and Eli Lilly & Co., iThemba Pharmaceuticals...
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Government & Policy
Inherent Safety pp. 34-37 (Member Content)
Chemical industry pins hopes on senate in fight over facility security.
Science Envoys pp. 38-39 (Member Content)
State Department taps three prominent scientists to reach out to muslim communities.
Government & Policy Concentrates p. 32 (Member Content)
- NIH Approves Stem Cell Lines
- NIH has approved 13 new human embryonic stem cell lines for use in federally funded research...
- Little Cost Impact From Climate Bills
- U.S. economic growth would be reduced by less than 1% in 2030 if climate-change legislation...
- Higher Ethanol Share Likely For Gasoline
- Although it won't make a final decision until mid-2010, EPA suggested last week that it will increase...
- Russia On Track For Weapons Destruction
- Russia says it is on track to destroy all its stockpiles of chemical weapons by 2012 and meet its obligations...
- Democrats Want New Global Trade Rules
- A group of Senate Democrats is urging the White House to support legislation that would rewrite the rules of global trade...
» more government & policy news...
Employment
Niche Opportunities Open In Pharma pp. 53-56
Recent uptick in biology hiring could herald jobs for chemists in drug discovery.
Science & Technology
Safeguarding Foreign Labs pp. 44-46 (Member Content)
State Department program raises awareness about lab safety and security in developing countries.
Tribology All Around pp. 47-49
Meeting highlights how friction triggers molecular-scale changes in adhesive tape, cosmetics, and more.
Science & Technology Concentrates pp. 41-42 (Member Content)
- Modulating Electron Transfer
- Using an infrared beam to control the flow of electrons across a H-bond bridge could lead to a new type of molecular switch.
- Catalyst Combines Nanotubes And Nickel
- A new catalytic material that mimics hydrogenase enzymes could be useful to generate H2 for fuel cells.
- Unexpected Carbene Behavior
- Chemists discover an N-heterocyclic carbene that reacts with a phosphaalkene—but leaves the carbene carbon sitting idle.
- Crystallographic Noise Characterizes Enzyme
- A new X-ray method teases out minor conformational states of enzymes that are key to catalytic activity.
- Counting CD4+ T Cells By Chemiluminescence
- A potential low-cost microfluidic device could help HIV/AIDS patients monitor their immune systems.
- Polyphosphorus Cations Proliferate
- Novel synthetic procedures add diversity to difficult-to-prepare catenated phosphorus compounds.
- Antibiotic Grooves
- A pair of previously unknown binding pockets in DNA gyrase might inspire the design of new antibiotics.
- Extra Carbon Dioxide Bulks Up Lobsters
- Rising levels of atmospheric CO2 may lead to larger lobsters, but shrinking sea urchins.
» more science & technology news...
Editor's Page
Innovation p. 3
The Departments
Letters pp. 4-5
Newscripts p. 64
Dan Brown Thrills With Science
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