QED Therapeutics, BTG, Halozyme, Taiho, and Zymeworks to Present Clinical Trial Concepts to International Research Network
We are grateful to QED Therapeutics, BTG, Halozyme, Taiho and Zymeworks for providing educational support for the meeting”
— Stacie Lindsey, President, CCF
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, USA, January 18, 2018 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation (CCF) announced today that five biopharmaceutical companies have been selected to present their clinical trial concepts at the upcoming Annual Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.
During the Industry Forum event, representatives from QED Therapeutics, BTG, Halozyme, Taiho and Zymeworks will present their clinical trial concepts to the International Cholangiocarcinoma Research Network (ICRN) which represents investigators from 36 medical institutions in 9 countries.
The purpose of the Industry Forum is to accelerate clinical trial development by fostering collaboration between the Foundation and industry partners. “Many global investigators are attending the conference, so it makes sense to invite colleagues from industry to participate and test their concepts. This is one of many ways the Foundation is accelerating development of potential new therapies for patients,” said CCF Executive Director Donna Mayer.
The CCF Conference will be held at the SLC Marriott City Creek January 31 - February 2 and be host to more than 375 attendees representing the medical and scientific communities, industry partners, policy-makers, payers, patients, caregivers and others invested in cholangiocarcinoma.
“We are grateful to QED Therapeutics, BTG, Halozyme, Taiho and Zymeworks for providing educational support for the meeting” shared CCF Founder and President Stacie Lindsey. “Their participation provides a forum to increase the knowledge and understanding of attendees about key issues central to the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and cure for cholangiocarcinoma.”
Additional funding for this conference was made possible (in part) by a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award.
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According to Kara Hanson, Professor of Health System Economics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, there are two main challenges for healthcare in low and middle-income countries. The first challenge is the “growing burden of non-communicable diseases.” Hansen says that “more than half of the disease burden in lower-middle income countries is due to non-communicable diseases, and even in the lowest income countries, non-communicable diseases are responsible for one-third of the disease burden.”
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SPOTLIGHT ON... EDREFORM HISTORY
What Would Dr. King Say? It’s a week when history is very much on people’s minds. For starters, MLK Jr. Day reminded millions that the struggle for freedom and equality continues. As LEAP Innovations’ CEO Phyllis Locket puts forth, If Dr. King were alive today, “He would look for fairness and find inequity in funding. He would look for hope and find inequity in student achievement. He would challenge us to work harder, rise above our differences and march forward together.” In the incredibly thoughtful and forward-looking piece, Phyllis reminds us that expecting great results when we believe we can educate all students with the same uniform approach is shortsighted.
Don’t Know Much About? Meanwhile, after the thousands of forums, remembrances and celebrations ensued around the country, Washington, DC was the site of some talking-heads discussions around whether we’ve progressed educationally as a nation. At AEI, pundits and politicians debated the merits of the signature education efforts of the Bush and the Obama Administrations (as if they were interrelated vs. cumulative and reflective of the times — and the needs of those times). Education Secretary Betsy DeVos took to the stage to argue that neither No Child Left Behind (NCLB) nor Race to the Top accomplished the promised successes, because Washington doesn’t have the answers: “NCLB did little to spark higher scores. Universal proficiency, touted at the law’s passage, was not achieved. As states and districts scrambled to avoid the law’s sanctions and maintain their federal funding, some resorted to focusing specifically on math and reading at the expense of other subjects. Others simply inflated scores or lowered standards.”
True, some say, but what of the enormous changes it spurred in parents’ behaviors when they learned they could hold their schools to account? Suddenly parents had “rights” under a federal law — rights that caused them to ask questions, seek options and helped 12-15% increases in charter school enrollments nationwide.
35 Years Since a Nation at Risk. Assuming you know all about it (and if you don’t, here’s your very own copy), the nation has come a long way in changing the conventional notion of schooling: correcting a generation of mythology that once posited that districts were superior to parents when it comes to educating kids, dispelling the notions that poverty was an excuse for failure, and that just requiring certain subjects to be taught would result in mastery, and on and on. To be sure, progress is slow, but it’s been steady, and the last 35 years have seen schools closed for failing for the first time in history, while whole communities choose to find other schools (Detroit and DC come to mind), because there were other schools to be chosen.
One-hundred-eighty years of uniform, top-down schooling will take a few more years to bust — that is, if we’re willing. And on that note, we were interested to see the Reagan Institute is planning a 35th anniversary review of A Nation at Risk in Washington, DC. Details are forthcoming. Meanwhile, here’s your own personal library of various revisits to A Nation at Risk that we and others have conducted over the years.
It all underscores that no one effort — be it federal, state or local — is enough. They are all necessary to stem the tide of failing, or mismatched, or underachieving, or irrelevant, or mediocre, bureaucratic schools and systems!
CURRENT EVENTS
The nation is pumped for National School Choice Week, which will take place from January 21 - 27. A special double edition of Reality Check with Jeanne Allen will feature Voices of Opportunity — parents, teachers, leaders in the field and advocates — and will be available on January 22.
DID YOU KNOW?
According to the Washington Post’s Jay Matthews, an Education Trust study of 1,876 literacy assignments in 6 urban middle schools revealed that 18% required no writing at all; about 60% demanded only some note-taking, short responses or a sentence or two; 14% required students to write a single paragraph, and only 9% went beyond that. Almost no U.S. high school students are required to do long research papers, except students in private schools or public schools with International Baccalaureate programs.
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Is your state or city missing a big piece of the puzzle? Are you involved in an effort to make significant changes? Maybe you’re running a school. Maybe you’re driving change in your school or community and have hit a roadblock. The bottom line is that no effort is too small.
Share with CER how you are helping deliver the promise of an excellent education for all children. Together, we can show how innovative education opportunities are bettering students’ lives.
Founded in 1993, the Center for Education Reform aims to expand educational opportunities that lead to improved economic outcomes for all Americans — particularly our youth — ensuring that conditions are ripe for innovation, freedom and flexibility throughout U.S. education.
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Perdue Names Appointees to the Utah USDA Farm Service Agency State Committee
Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 18, 2018- U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue recently announced the individuals who will serve on the Utah USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) state committee. The state committee is responsible for the oversight of farm programs and county committee operations, resolving appeals from the agriculture community, and helping to keep producers informed about FSA programs.
Each state committee has five members, one chairperson and four members. Additional appointees will be named at a later date. The individuals appointed to serve on this committee include:
· Committee Chair William Talbot – Piute County
· Scott Mower – Sanpete County
· Randy Sessions – Morgan County
· Mike Yardley – Beaver County
The Farm Service Agency serves farmers, ranchers and agricultural partners through the delivery of effective, efficient agricultural programs. The agency offers farmers a strong safety net through the administration of farm commodity and disaster programs. FSA continues to conserve natural resources and also provides credit to agricultural producers who are unable to receive private, commercial credit, including special emphasis on beginning, underserved and women farmers and ranchers.
Under the direction of Secretary Sonny Perdue, the USDA will always be facts-based and data-driven, with a decision-making mindset that is customer-focused. Secretary Perdue leads the USDA with four guiding principles: to maximize the ability of American agriculture to create jobs, sell food and fiber, and feed and clothe the world; to prioritize customer service for the taxpayers; to ensure that our food supply is safe and secure; and to maintain good stewardship of the natural resources that provide us with our miraculous bounty. Understanding that we live in a global economy where trade is of top importance, Secretary Perdue has pledged to be an unapologetic advocate for American agriculture.
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Robin Sadlier
EEO Outreach Coordinator
Utah Farm Service Agency
125 South State Street
Room 3202
Salt Lake City, UT 84138
