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International Women’s Day: Female life science leaders

Drug Discovery World

Linda Powers, CEO, Northwest Biotherapeutics Powers has served as the Chairman of NW Bio since 2007, and as CEO since 2011. Dr Thomas has a background in biochemistry research at Leicester, Cambridge, and Glaxo, after which she has had 25 years of pharmaceutical drug discovery and development experience from large Pharma (GSK) and SMEs.

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BioSpace Movers & Shakers, Nov. 6

The Pharma Data

X4 Pharmaceuticals – Art Taveras was named CSO of Cambridge, Mass.-based Prior to that, Taveras was vice president of Small Molecule Drug Discovery and CMC Development at Biogen Idec, and Alantos Pharmaceuticals, which was acquired by Amgen in 2007. Venugopal most recently served as executive director at Intercept Pharmaceuticals.

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Transforming high-throughput screening with mass spectrometry

Drug Discovery World

HTS is widely used by pharmaceutical companies to identify compounds (or ‘hits’) that show pharmacological activity, which are used as starting points to optimise medicines during the drug discovery process. Keeping pace with synthetic chemistry HTE in support of drug molecule design . Castellino, M.R. Groseclose and D. Ritorto, R.