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23 December 2014 | By Paul McCracken & Stephen Krause
The cost of drug discovery and development, depending upon the size of a given company, has been estimated upwards of $5 billion. Hay et al. recently published a review of clinical development success rates showing only a 10.4% likelihood of regulatory approval of all drugs entering Phase I, 64.5% of…
28 October 2014 | By Rick Davies, Associate Director, AstraZeneca / Ian Hardern, Senior Research Scientist, AstraZeneca / Ross Overman, Associate Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca
Recombinant protein production is a prerequisite and essential component of most modern small molecule drug discovery programs. Target proteins are required to underpin screening, structural and mechanistic studies providing data that drives chemical design. From the initial establishment of recombinant protein production in the pharmaceutical industry in the 1980s, systems…
15 December 2013 | By Sergio C. Chai, Asli N. Goktug and Taosheng Chen, High Throughput Screening Center, Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Liquid handlers are ubiquitous and essential tools in every aspect of the drug discovery arena. Innovations in the past few decades resulted in a sizeable array of devices. With so many choices, it is important to identify appropriate instrumentation for a particular screening strategy, which should be based on unique…
18 November 2013 | By AMSBIO
Presented by Dr Elad Katz, a senior scientist at AMSBIO, a new on-demand webinar explores the potential of 3D cell-based models for regenerative medicine and drug discovery.
20 August 2013 | By Sheraz Gul, Vice President and Head of Biology, European ScreeningPort GmbH
Cysteine proteases are expressed ubiquitously in the animal and plant kingdom and are thought to play key roles in maintaining homeostasis. The aberrant function of cysteine proteases in humans are known to lead to a variety of epidermal disease states such as inflammatory skin disease1. In marked contrast, the serine…
20 August 2013 | By Chanda R. Yonzon, Atul Karande, Sai P. Chamarthy and Brent A. Donovan (Merck & Co. Inc)
Raman spectroscopy has emerged as the preeminent analytical tool for a number of applications within drug discovery and development. Advances in the instrumentation, sensor fabrication and data analysis have enabled the wider acceptance of Raman spectroscopy1,2. In discovery, Raman spectroscopy is used to elucidate structural activity relationships3 and to optimise…
20 August 2013 | By Niklas Larsson, Linda Sundström, Erik Ryberg and Lovisa Frostne (AstraZeneca)
G protein-coupled receptors are one of the major classes of therapeutic targets for a broad range of diseases. The most commonly used assays in GPCR drug discovery measure production of second messengers such as cAMP or IP3 that are the result of activation of individual signalling pathways. Such specific assays…
19 March 2013 | By InvivoSciences Inc.
Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies and InvivoSciences collaborate to accelerate drug discovery in cardiac disease...
25 February 2013 | By Esther P. Black, College of Pharmacy and Markey Cancer Center, University of Kentucky
Cancer treatment faces a conundrum: a growing lack of therapeutics with lasting effects. The low hanging fruit of the medicinal chemistry orchard seems to have been picked, and modification of existing anti-cancer therapeutics has produced only incremental rewards[1]. Thus, both pharmaceutical companies and academic researchers are left searching for new…
18 December 2012 | By Terry McCann, TJM Consultancy
The average cost to a major pharmaceutical company of developing a new drug is over USD 6 billion1. Herper1 observes that the pharmaceutical industry is gripped by rising failure rates and costs, and suggests that the cost of new drugs will be reduced by new technologies and deeper understanding of…
18 December 2012 | By D. Lansing Taylor, Director, University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute and Allegheny Foundation Professor of Computational and Systems Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
The pharmaceutical industry has experienced a decade of turbulence driven by the ‘patent cliff’ as major revenue generators are lost to generic status, coupled to the absence of a sustainable pipeline of drug candidates in development that have a good chance of being approved and launched. It is generally agreed…
18 December 2012 | By Matthew A. Cooper and Reena Halai, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, the University of Queensland
In the journey of a molecule from its origins in a compound library to candidate drug status, a large variety of profiling must occur to define activity, selectivity, potency, adverse effects, pharmacology and in vivo efficacy. Advances in biophysical methods that can analyse drug interactions with a molecular target, a…
18 December 2012 | By Sheraz Gul and Gesa Witt, European ScreeningPort GmbH
The histone deacetylase (HDAC) class of enzyme are a group of conserved enzymes known for their ability to remove acetyl groups from lysine residues on histone tails. Since aberrant HDAC enzyme expression is observed in various diseases, there is increasing interest in finding small molecules which function as HDAC enzyme…
30 October 2012 | By kdm communications limited
Tecan and TAP Biosystems, a leading supplier of innovative cell culture systems, have announced a co-marketing agreement to further expand the automated 3D cell culture capabilities of the Freedom EVO® liquid handling platform. Automation of TAP’s collagen-based RAFT™ cell culture system will allow scientists to quickly and conveniently create 3D…
22 October 2012 | By Bahija Jallal, Executive Vice President, Research & Development, MedImmune
The first biologic drug – infliximab (Remicade) – was launched in 1998 with initial sales of USD 500 million per annum. By 2010, Reuters’ top 10 drugs by sales included five biologics (Remicade, Enbrel, Humira, Avastin and Humira) generating around USD 34 billion in revenue, including USD 7.4 billion from…
