Drug Target Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

As the CEO of iOnctura, an innovative oncology biopharmaceutical company she co-founded in 2017, Catherine has played a key role in advancing the development of highly targeted small molecules aimed at revolutionising cancer treatment. Gender diversity is a hot topic in pharmaceutical and biotech drug development.

Treatment

Drug Target Review

JUNE 16, 2025

By complementing traditional analytical methods, it provides a more accurate representation of drug behaviour to support translational and pre-clinical studies. This article explores the principles, applications and future potential of MSI in drug development. For instance, Cheng et al.

Drugs

Drug Target Review

APRIL 7, 2025

Involved in various physiological processes, such as vision, taste, smell, immune response and neurotransmission, GPCRs are activated by various molecules including hormones, neurotransmitters and environmental stimuli, which trigger a cascade of cellular events that help regulate bodily functions. References Sun D, et al. doi:10.1016/j.apsb.2022.02.002.

Fragment Screening

PPD

APRIL 14, 2025

To that end, the PI can ensure patients understand the science of appetite and metabolic regulation, for example, to relieve some of the self-imposed expectations for instant weight loss or other quick signs of success. Were applying that expertise and commitment to every aspect of developing and running successful GLP-1 studies.

Clinical Trials

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

JULY 14, 2025

XH4D via Getty Images A group of private equity firms are pouring funding into PCI Pharma Services, betting the contract drug development and manufacturing organization’s business is poised to grow in the years ahead. Additionally, PCI is repurposing an existing campus in Bedford, N.H.,

Production

DrugBaron

JULY 19, 2022

Despite the current hype around so called “advanced therapies”, which range from gene editing to cell therapies, and the inexorable advance of biologic therapeutics such as monoclonal antibodies, even in 2022 the majority of drugs in development and reaching patients are still small organic molecules.

Small Molecule

DrugBank

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Data science has emerged as an innovative tool in the biopharmaceutical industry, leveraging the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence to drive innovation and efficiency across the entire drug development lifecycle. These complex molecules require precise engineering to ensure optimal efficacy and safety.

Drug Development

The Pharma Data

JULY 28, 2021

Novel small molecule drug candidates will target GPR75 to potentially address obesity and related co-morbidities. The companies will evenly split research and development costs and share equally in any future potential profits. Yancopoulos, M.D.,

Small Molecule

Drug Target Review

JULY 18, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is poised to transform the field of target discovery in drug development, offering immense potential to enhance efficacy, personalised medicine, and accelerate the development of innovative compounds. Cavlan explains that “they are brilliant at developing and bringing new drugs to market.”

Drug Development

DrugBank

MAY 15, 2024

The Evolution of Drug Discovery: From Dark Rooms to Precision Targets In the past, drug discovery often felt like a lucky guess. This method was more about serendipity than science. But as molecular biology has advanced, so too has our approach to finding new drugs.

Small Molecule

Drug Target Review

JULY 13, 2023

By capitalising on condensate biology, Dewpoint seeks to tackle diseases and targets that have previously lacked sufficient understanding for effective drug discovery. Dewpoint addresses diseases that lacked comprehensive biological understanding, allowing for more meaningful and logical drug discovery efforts.

Disease

DrugBank

MAY 22, 2024

In the dynamic world of drug discovery, the notion of "undruggable" targets presents both a significant challenge and an intriguing frontier for researchers and pharmaceutical companies. Strategies to Tackle PPIs Despite these challenges, some wins in targeting PPIs with small molecules have emerged.

Small Molecule

Drug Target Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

However, this will not be straightforward, given that non-oncogene resistance is driven by complex transcriptional networks, and the key drivers that determine how these mechanisms could be targets for drug development remain elusive. This orally available small molecule binds to the bromodomain of CBP/p300 in a highly specific manner.

Small Molecule

DrugBaron

JANUARY 31, 2024

After decades slowly developing in the shadows, featuring more often in science fiction novels than television news programs, the arrival of large language models, and ChatGPT in particular, thrust artificial intelligence into the national consciousness. Does AI improve decision making in drug R&D?

Pharma R&D

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Now comes word of another absolutely incredible use of cryo-EM: determining with great ease and exquisite precision the structure of the smaller organic chemical compounds, or “small molecules,” that play such key roles in biological exploration and drug development. Also analyzed were eight less-familiar small molecules.

Small Molecule

Drug Target Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

I work in the Centre for Cancer Drug Discovery (CCDD) at The Institute of Cancer Research in London, which is an academic drug discovery centre. The mission of the CCDD is to discover novel small-molecule therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and progress them to hypothesis testing phase 1 clinical trials.

Fragment Screening

Drug Target Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

To bring us closer to curing cancer, a combination of effective drugs with non-overlapping mechanisms of action is required. 6 In all these examples, an effective backbone drug was first developed, before adding one or more drugs to establish the new regimens. References Blood Cancer UK.

Small Molecule

LifeSciVC

JANUARY 16, 2024

Small molecule GLP1s? Whether trial design, execution, or otherwise, drug development even where there is precedent is a challenging road and should not be taken for granted. Whether it’s small molecules to target the incretins (GLP1R ± GIPR), targeting well-validated signaling nodes in I&I (e.g.,

Small Molecule

LifeSciVC

AUGUST 5, 2024

We are constantly reminded how we are in the midst of an artificial intelligence revolution of the drug development process which promises to completely transform how we develop drugs with increases in productivity of an order of magnitude or more. One final parallel to 2001.

Molecular Biology

Alta Sciences

APRIL 17, 2024

Five Promising Treatment Areas in Early-Phase Drug Development in 2024 aasimakopoulos Wed, 04/17/2024 - 15:52 Early-phase drug development is an ever-changing landscape, as emerging science leads to new promising areas of research for the treatment of human health issues.

Drug Development

Dark Matter Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

As a small biotech company with new technology at the frontier of the known drug discovery universe, it may feel like you’re charting a course alone in a dark, cold, and empty void with hailing frequencies open, but with no incoming transmissions. But you would be wrong.

Small Molecule

KIF1A

JULY 22, 2023

If these mutations change the structure of mutant KIF1A to help it perform better, this begs the question: Can we identify small molecules that fix the structure of mutant R9Q/R11Q KIF1A? elegans movement and morphological defects In science, being observant after an accident can be just as useful as having a firm starting hypothesis.

Small Molecule

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

OCTOBER 11, 2022

That’s quite a testament to the world-leading science that NIH pursues and its continued impact on improving human health and well-being. Barry Sharpless, Scripps Research, La Jolla, CA, October 5, 2022 marked the second time that he’s received an early-morning congratulatory call from The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Research

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Discovery

JANUARY 14, 2016

The technique, which involves flash-freezing molecules in liquid nitrogen and bombarding them with electrons to capture their images with a special camera, has advanced dramatically since its inception thanks to the efforts of many creative minds. The implications for drug discovery and development are perhaps most exciting.

Small Molecule

Drug Target Review

JUNE 19, 2024

Transplanting cells could prove to be more beneficial than treating a particular condition with a small molecule or an antibody, and that really speaks to the power of cell therapy. Just like small molecules and antibodies, cell therapies are changing how we treat patients. from May 2017 until December 2022.

Therapies

The Pharma Data

JUNE 28, 2021

Broadens company’s oncology platform of Targeted Alpha Therapies / Acquisition includes actinium-225 labeled differentiated PSMA small molecule for the treatment of prostate cancer. Noria was founded by Dr. John Babich, Chief, Radiopharmaceutical Sciences in Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine. Noria) and PSMA Therapeutics Inc.

Small Molecule

BMG Labtech

APRIL 16, 2024

In this blog, we take stock of progress, look at what’s in store for drug development, and give examples of ways microplate readers can help advance research into molecular glues. Conventional drug development has often focused on finding small molecules that fit the active site of a protein.

Targeted Protein Degradation

Drug Target Review

MAY 23, 2023

Credit: European Science Communication Institute The human microbiota is fundamental to correct functioning of tissue homeostasis, actively interacting with the host on different levels including mucosal surfaces of which the gastrointestinal tract is the most colonised. Dorit also coordinates the EU-funded research project Algae4IBD.

Drugs

PerkinElmer

JANUARY 7, 2020

Successful researchers and companies master and use different technologies, making sure the interpretation of data does not suffer experimental or analytical bias and leads to better success rates and higher profitability for drug developers. In this assay, cells are incubated with the compound and heated.

Small Molecule

The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Prior to VHsquared, Suhail was Senior Vice President and Head of Development and Medical Affairs for Shionogi in Europe. Mission Therapeutics is an early-stage drug development company targeting the ubiquitin pathway for the treatment of kidney disease, neurodegenerative disease, rare mitochondrial diseases and fibrosis.

Clinical Pharmacology

Nvidia Developer: Drug Discovery

APRIL 20, 2020

Molecular dynamics simulations offer accurate approximations of real molecular behavior, which is useful in different stages of drug development. They are used to simulate proteins and lipids and they shed light on how drugs might bind to a protein.

Small Molecule

Agency IQ

APRIL 19, 2024

As the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) characterized it in a 2023 call for comments : “Evolving understanding of disease biology and molecular pharmacology, advancements in drug discovery, and growth in novel therapeutic platforms (i.e., In particular, regulations in both the U.S.

Clinical Trials

The Pharma Data

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Vatiquinone, developed from PTC’s Bio-e platform, is an investigational oral small molecule that inhibits 15-Lipoxygenase, a key enzyme that regulates oxidative stress and inflammation response pathways underpinning many neurological disease pathologies, including epilepsy. About PTC Therapeutics, Inc.

Clinical Trials

PerkinElmer

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

“To lead in product development and partner with customers in solving everyday challenges, we gather information regularly about current practices and future trends,” said Volker Eckelt, PhD, Senior Strategy Leader, PerkinElmer Life Sciences. Small molecules are making a comeback. It is an ongoing debate.

Biochemical Assays

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

JULY 20, 2017

Credit: Brittany Mahoney As NIH Director, I often hear stories of how people with serious diseases—from arthritis to Zika infection—are benefitting from the transformational power of NIH’s investments in basic science. Reference : [1] Identification of the cystic fibrosis gene: chromosome walking and jumping. 1989 Sep 8;245(4922):1059-1065.

Clinical Trials

The Pharma Data

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

EVOTEC TO SUPPORT RAPPTA IN DEVELOPING SMALL MOLECULES THAT REACTIVATE PP2A, A KEY TUMOR SUPPRESSOR. THE COLLABORATION LEVERAGES EVOTEC’S ONCOLOGY EXPERTISE AND INTEGRATED DRUG DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM. Rappta has a strong scientific, management and commercial team.

Small Molecule

The Pharma Data

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

At its annual Pharma Media Day 2022, Bayer presented the latest developments in the ongoing transformation of its pharmaceuticals business, which is aimed at delivering long-term, sustainable business growth by bringing forward new options for patients. “We

Clinical Trials