brighter days ahead.

The mayor points to the January sale of two buildings in the former Farrell Foundry complex to a Hamden developer, who expects to turn them into a combination of housing and retail.

"This is a key to revitalizing the downtown," he said.

Ideally, more people means more businesses downtown. But that could require better transportation.

"We need more train service (on the Waterbury Line)," he said. "This is something the four Valley mayors need to bring to the transportation commissioner."

DellaVolpe believes regionalization is a must. Combining wastewater treatment and schools with Derby would save both money, he said.

Cassetti, a 53-year-old former alderman, accuses DellaVolpe and Democrats of not being prepared for revaluation.

"Every city goes through revaluation," he said. "But not every city allows economic development to remain dormant likeIt is the task of pharmaceutical companies to develop potential medications, then market and sell them to patients. And in the halls of academia, scientists are making discoveries about human biology in health and disease. But bridging these two realms—transforming discoveries into effective therapies—has historically been a challenge because of the difficulty in attaining funding to do the expensive and arduous work of exploring the actual applicative potential of compounds.

With that in mind, the Weizmann Institute of Science is establishing the Dr. Barry Sherman Institute for Medicinal Chemistry—thanks to a major gift from the Sherman family of Toronto. It will fund innovative research on compounds that hold promise for becoming therapies for a range of human diseases and disorders, including autoimmune diseases, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases and infectious diseases.

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