Date: 11/29/2010
TUMSPR News: TUMS Chancellor, Dr. Bagher Larijani, informs of production of recombinant medications and vaccines that are to be unveiled in near future in his opening speech at the Research Festival held jointly by TUMS and University of Tehran.
Dr. Bagher Larijani, TUMS Chancellor, gives some clue about the production of recombinant medications and vaccines that are to be unveiled in near future in his opening speech at the Research Festival held jointly by TUMS and University of Tehran at on November 22, 2010. The festival that has been coined “Research Week” started on November 22 and came to a close on Nov. 24, 2010.
The chancellor said, “We are on the verge of producing eight recombinant medications and I hope to be able to produce some of them in the coming months. Some of these medications have passed the preliminary phases and some of them are in the control phase. We have also promised to produce more than ten new drugs next year”.
On September 15, 2010, the university unveiled Interferon beta 1, named Ziferon, a recombinant medication used in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). This medication was the sixth production of TUMS Pharmaceutical Science Research Center in recent years. The Minister of Health, Dr Marzieh Vahid-Dastjerdi, and the vice-president for Research and Technology, Dr. Fatmeh Soltankhah unveiled the drug.
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