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Targeted protein degradation: turning undruggable targets into druggable targets

Drug Target Review

Unlike traditional drug discovery, which focuses on inhibiting or activating proteins, TPD offers a more precise and efficient way to alter cellular pathways. 1 The concept of TPD was first demonstrated with a heterobifunctional small molecule to degrader a protein of interest in the early 2000s. How does TPD work? Nature News.

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Biotech Risk Cycles: Assets And Platforms

LifeSciVC

Here’s a history lesson on these asset-platform cycles… In 1999-2001, biotech experienced what is widely called the “genomics bubble” – venture capitalists and public market investors fueled an ebullient moment in the markets (alongside an even larger dot.com bubble). Intellia, Kymera , Dyne, Replimune, etc).