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Item Open Access Contracts for biopharmaceutical manufacturing based on production cost and capabilities(Taylor & Francis, 2023-06-09) Limon, Yasemin; Martagan, T.; Krishnamurthy, A.trategic collaborations are critical to the success of efforts aimed at discovering new drugs and therapies in the biopharmaceutical industry. These collaborations aim to leverage domain expertise, asymmetries in production costs and/or capabilities to improve efficiency. Despite increasing collaborations, the biopharmaceutical industry lacks a structured guideline for choosing contracts. We present contract models with effort-based formulations that capture the key characteristics of biopharmaceutical operations and analyse incentive mechanisms such as fixed payment, revenue-sharing, risk-sharing, and cost-sharing in biopharmaceutical collaborations. We show that traditional incentive schemes do not achieve supply chain coordination, although they are commonly used in the industry. We introduce a new contract model called fee-for-effort-and-output contract that encourages the parties to exert higher efforts by offering discounts on their operating costs, and show that this contract achieves coordination with an appropriate selection of contract parameters. We also investigate the efficiency of noncoordinating contracts with traditional incentive schemes and identify the capability and cost structures under which they achieve the highest efficiency possible, to both determine the next-best alternatives and explain their popularity in practice.Item Open Access Cryogenic X-ray crystallographic studies of biomacromolecules at Turkish light source "Turkish DeLight"(TÜBİTAK, 2023-01-01) Atalay, N.; Akcan, E. K.; Gül, M.; Ayan, E.; Destan, E.; Ertem, F. B.; Tokay, N.; Çakılkaya, B.; Nergiz, Z.; Karakadıoğlu, G.; Kepçeoğlu, A.; Yapıcı, İ.; Tosun, B.; Baldır, N.; Yıldırım, G.; Johnson, J. A.; Güven, Ö.; Shafiei, A.; Arslan, N. E.; Yılmaz, M.; Kulakman, C.; Paydos, S. S.; Çinal, Zeynep Sena; Şabanoğlu, K.; Pazarçeviren, A.; Yılmaz, A.; Canbay, B.; Aşcı, B.; Kartal, E.; Tavlı, S.; Çalıseki, M.; Göç, G.; Mermer, A.; Yeşilay, G.; Altuntaş, S.; Tateishi, H.; Otsuka, M.; Fujita, M.; Tekin, Ş.; Çiftçi, H.; Durdağı, S.; Dinler Doğanay, G.; Karaca, E.; Kaplan Türköz, B.; Kabasakal, B. V.; Katı, A.; Demirci, H.X-ray crystallography is a robust and powerful structural biology technique that provides high-resolution atomic structures of biomacromolecules. Scientists use this technique to unravel mechanistic and structural details of biological macromolecules (e.g., proteins, nucleic acids, protein complexes, protein-nucleic acid complexes, or large biological compartments). Since its inception, single-crystal cryocrystallography has never been performed in Türkiye due to the lack of a single-crystal X-ray diffractometer. The X-ray diffraction facility recently established at the University of Health Sciences, İstanbul, Türkiye will enable Turkish and international researchers to easily perform high-resolution structural analysis of biomacromolecules from single crystals. Here, we describe the technical and practical outlook of a state-of-the-art home-source X-ray, using lysozyme as a model protein. The methods and practice described in this article can be applied to any biological sample for structural studies. Therefore, this article will be a valuable practical guide from sample preparation to data analysis.