NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

MAY 21, 2020

One advantage of this class of therapeutics is that the timelines for their development, testing, and approval are typically shorter than those for drugs made of chemical compounds, called small molecules. In the U.S. Stay tuned for more information about these potentially significant advances in the next few months. 2020 May 18.

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Drug Target Review

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Groundbreaking strategies like proteolysis-targeting chimeric molecules (PROTACs) are also being explored. 6 Combining the effect of payloads with different mechanisms of action – an approach that revolutionised small molecule chemotherapy – also holds the promise of enhanced therapeutic activity for ADCs.

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Codon

AUGUST 27, 2024

Extra pieces of data, including proteins, lipids, or small molecules, are helpful when a particular DNA sequence is difficult to amplify or isolate from a sample, or when sequencing results don’t point squarely at a single disease-causing organism. New Yorkers wait to receive a monkeypox vaccine.

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