Drug discovery Archives

Opinion 1 Feb 2023

Computational chemistry and cancer

by Martin Slater, Cresset Discovery Computational chemistry offers a fast and innovative approach to drug discovery and is especially powerful when used in combination with biological testing to provide a…

February 1, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By External Contributor

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Cancer cell line screening: a compass for drug discovery

Large-panel cancer cell line screening can help find the right fit between a specific cancer cell and a therapeutic molecule, leading to the development of effective treatments. How can robust…

January 24, 2023 - 5 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik

Interview 19 Jan 2023

Interview: Proscia talks about digital pathology

Labiotech recently interviewed Nathan Buchbinder, chief product officer at Proscia, about digital pathology. AI has been a hot topic in drug discovery. Can you outline how it’s being applied to…

January 19, 2023 - 8 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 12 Jan 2023

Collaboration to boost pandemic preparedness, structure-based drug discovery and vaccine design

A new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to facilitate collaboration in the field of pandemic preparedness and to promote further cooperation between the University of Oxford and Diamond Light Source has…

January 12, 2023 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 11 Jan 2023

We DUB this target ‘druggable’

By Sheelagh Frame, CSO at Ubiquigent Modulation of the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) presents a rich source for drug discovery. Recent years have seen the clinical validation of proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs)…

January 11, 2023 - 5 minutesmins - By External Contributor

News and Trends 20 Dec 2022

Watch: Interview with IRBM’s Heidi Kingdon Jones

The IRBM Group is an innovative research and discovery CRO (contract research organization) working across all aspects of drug discovery and early development. Headquartered in Italy, the company fosters collaborations…

December 20, 2022 - 1 minutemin - By Jim Cornall

Diving deep into science: How the life science industry relies on CRO’s drug hunter skills

Over the years, CROs have evolved from a transactional ‘pair of hands’ to organizations that are true partners in their client’s drug discovery journey, providing them with cutting edge science…

December 20, 2022 - 7 minutesmins - By Omnia Ibrahim

News and Trends 15 Dec 2022

Cyclica and SK Chemicals to co-develop novel therapeutics

Cyclica Inc. and SK Chemicals Co., Ltd. have announced an AI-driven drug discovery and development partnership to develop therapies across a range of disease areas. Under this collaboration, Cyclica will…

December 15, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Dec 2022

PrecisionLife to work on R&D with Ono Pharmaceutical

PrecisionLife Limited has entered into a multi-target discovery and validation partnership with Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. The R&D collaboration will leverage PrecisionLife’s combinatorial analytics-generated insights to identify novel therapeutic targets…

December 14, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 14 Dec 2022

PhoreMost and ThinkCyte collaborate on AI-based drug discovery

PhoreMost Ltd. and ThinkCyte K.K have announced a strategic research partnership aimed at advancing modern phenotypic drug screening using artificial intelligence (AI). The partnership leverages both companies’ technologies in high-throughput…

December 14, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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Interview 14 Dec 2022

Sibylla Biotech: how physicists met biologists to discover new drugs

Discovering new drugs remains an inefficient, trial and error-based process. The founding team behind the Italian startup Sibylla Biotech explain how their interdisciplinary approach can speed up drug discovery in…

December 14, 2022 - 9 minutesmins - By Jonathan Smith

News and Trends 9 Dec 2022

Vevo Therapeutics launches with $12M to ‘discover better drugs’

Vevo Therapeutics, a biotechnology company using its Mosaic in vivo drug discovery platform and next generation AI models to uncover better drugs for more patients, has launched with an oversubscribed…

December 9, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

News and Trends 28 Nov 2022

Licensing agreement signed for C4XD between C4X Discovery and AstraZeneca

C4X Discovery Holdings plc has signed an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with AstraZeneca. It is worth up to $402 million, for its NRF2 Activator program. AstraZeneca will develop and commercialize an oral…

November 28, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

Interview 18 Nov 2022

How cardioids can usher in the next generation of drug discovery

The California-based Molecular Devices brings automated 3D cell culture and image analysis together with HeartBeat.bio’s cardioid technology to enable unique and scalable drug discovery and cardiac safety testing. Cardiovascular diseases…

November 18, 2022 - 6 minutesmins - By Omnia Ibrahim

More News! 9 Nov 2022

Sensorium closes $30M deal to advance drug discovery engine

Sensorium Therapeutics, announced the closing of a $30 million series a financing to advance its initial asset, SENS-01, and Biodynamic Discovery Platform (BDP). The platform is a drug discovery engine…

November 9, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 8 Nov 2022

Google and Meta AI could boost cancer research and drug discovery

Encoded in the DNA, a protein may be represented as a thread of hundreds of individual molecules called amino acids, linked together. Depending on the particular amino acids combination, a…

November 8, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

More News! 4 Nov 2022

Optibrium and Lhasa Limited study published on predictive modelling for enzymes

A peer reviewed study published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry has been published by Optibrium and Lhasa Limited that shows advance predictive modelling for drug-metabolizing enzymes. The companies are…

November 4, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 1 Nov 2022

First to market doesn’t guarantee success

A comparison of two cancer drugs, Opdivo and Keytruda, reveals that being the first-to-market is not necessarily the main factor in a drug’s success. For the first four years since…

November 1, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

More News! 31 Oct 2022

Drug discovery company signs exclusive license to use university’s technology

A drug discovery and development company using deubiquitylase (DUB) modulators as therapeutics for areas of high unmet needs has signed an exclusive license with the University of Southern Denmark for…

October 31, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 31 Oct 2022

PhoreMost and Arvinas to collaborate on drug discovery against multiple therapeutic targets

U.K. biopharma company PhoreMost Ltd. has entered into a multi-target collaboration with Arvinas, a company active in targeted protein degradation (TPD). Under the terms of the agreement, PhoreMost will receive…

October 31, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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