US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to Conduct Clinical Study on Biotie's Nepicastat in Cocaine Dependence

15-Dec-2011 - Biotie Therapies announced that it has signed a Collaborative Research and Development Agreement with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the US National Institutes of Health.Under the agreement, NIDA and Biotie will investigate the safety and efficacy of Biotie's nepicastat (SYN117) ...

'Robotic Scientist' will run experiments too complex for humans

11-Jan-2010 - A "robotic scientist" that can automatically plan and execute experiments may soon provide new insights into the biology of addiction to drugs and alcohol. Further down the road, the artificial intelligence (AI) that controls the experiments, dubbed "Eureqa," could be applied to a wide variety of ...

Interdisciplinary research team developing novel drug detection technology

New system uses software that acts like a robotic scientist

12-Nov-2009 - Every time a person snorts cocaine, it doesn't just go to his or her head: It also provokes a response in the immune system, creating special biomolecules that may serve as a permanent record of each exposure. With the support of a $2.7 million Recovery Act grant from the National Institute of ...

NIH funds Einstein center to target HIV-related brain disease

15-Jun-2009 - The National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health has awarded a three-year, $3-million grant to Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University to establish a research center to study the neurological complications that afflict people infected with HIV, the virus ...