PHA News Archive - February 24, 2006

Vol 7, Number 4		February 24, 2006
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		Topics For This Issue
	Penn Researchers Awarded $1.1 Million for Pulmonary Hypertension Center Darusentan Phase 2b Data to be Presented at ACC.06 Stem Cell Research: Science and the Future

 

Penn Researchers Awarded $1.1 Million for Pulmonary Hypertension Center

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine received $1.1 million dollars from the Cardiovascular Medical Research Education Fund (CMREF) to establish the Penn Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (IPAH) Center for Cell Studies. The five-year grant is part of a national network that will study the molecular and cellular origins of idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension. Read Article (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-02/uops-pra022306.php)

 

Darusentan Phase 2b Data to be Presented at ACC.06

Myogen, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of small molecule therapeutics for the treatment of cardiovascular disorders, announced that the abstract describing the effects of darusentan in patients with resistant hypertension was selected for presentation at ACC.06, the 55th Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology, which will be held March 11-14, 2006 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Read Article (http://investor.myogen.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=135160&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=819517&highlight=)

 

Stem Cell Research: Science and the Future
	Since 1998, when scientists isolated embryonic stem cells in a lab, questions over how -- and whether -- to use them have abounded. In Stem Cell Now, bioethics expert Christopher Thomas Scott explores the possibilities of what some consider the greatest discovery since nuclear fusion. Read Article (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5204335)

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