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New Mansfield-PhRMA Research Scholars Announced

The Mansfield Foundation has announced the eight researchers from Japan’s pharmaceutical research community selected to participate in the Mansfield-PhRMA Research Scholars program for 2018. This will be the sixth exchange under the Research Scholars Program, which...

Alumni Mansfield-PhRMA Research Scholars Gather in Tokyo

Earlier this month ten alumni representing five cohorts of the Mansfield-PhRMA Research Scholars Program gathered in Tokyo to meet with the new chairman of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) Board of Directors, Robert A. Bradway (Chairman...

Mansfield-PhRMA Research Scholars

The fifth group of Mansfield-PhRMA Research Scholars returned to Japan September 23 after a two-week U.S. study tour that provided a comprehensive look at the U.S. ecosystem for fostering translational research.  The tour began in Washington, D.C., where the eight...

Building Networks

In November 2015 alumni met in Tokyo with Dr. Christopher Austin (Director, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), National Institutes of Health) in Tokyo. The researchers heard from Dr. Austin about NCATS’ mission and the scientific initiatives...

Building Networks

In September 2015 alumni and new Research Scholars met with Dr. G. Sitta Sittampalam, Senior Advisor on Science & Technology to the Director, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health. The meeting, organized by the...

Third Annual PhRMA Research Exchange

In the third exchange, participants traveled to Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and Boston in September 2015. In Washington they met with policy and regulatory affairs experts from pharmaceutical companies, the Brookings Institution, and the U.S. House of...