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Bayer and Broad Institute extend cancer therapy research collaboration

Broad Institute

Established in 2013, the Bayer-Broad collaboration is uniquely structured to encourage close coordination and ongoing, face-to-face interactions between researchers at both organizations. “Bayer’s established collaboration with the Broad Institute has already resulted in three clinical oncology candidates over the past decade.

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MicroED: From Powder to Structure in a Half-Hour

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

Now comes word of another absolutely incredible use of cryo-EM: determining with great ease and exquisite precision the structure of the smaller organic chemical compounds, or “small molecules,” that play such key roles in biological exploration and drug development. Also analyzed were eight less-familiar small molecules.

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The power of combinations in blood cancers

Drug Target Review

These regimens frequently include one or two small molecule inhibitors and immuno-oncology (IO) therapies, such as monoclonal antibodies and T-cell engagers. 2013); 108(3): 479-485. To bring us closer to curing cancer, a combination of effective drugs with non-overlapping mechanisms of action is required. Cancers (Basel).

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Target-directed cancer: protein-ligand interactions  

Drug Target Review

The mission of the CCDD is to discover novel small-molecule therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and progress them to hypothesis testing phase 1 clinical trials. 2013) 56, 2059-2073. Although we are an academic centre we work very much like industry. Capivasertib (orange) bound to the kinase domain of AKT (blue). Acta Cryst.

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Natural Intelligence?

Molecular Design

My pulse will be quickenin' With each drop of strychnine We feed to a pigeon It just takes a smidgin To poison a pigeon in the park Tom Lehrer, Poisoning Pigeons in the Park | video ** Ill be reviewing the H2024 study (Occurrence of Natural Selection in Successful Small Molecule Drug Discovery) in this post.

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Game-changing pan-TEAD inhibitor for solid tumours

Drug Target Review

The current version of Chemistry42 uses over 40 generative models, including generative autoencoders and generative adversarial networks as well as both structure-based and ligand-based drug design to generate and optimise de novo small molecules.

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ATUZAGINSTAT

New Drug Approvals

link] 01 Aug 2022 Cortexyme is now called Quince Therapeutics You need to be a logged in or subscribed to view this content This small molecule is an orally available protease inhibitor targeting the lysine proteases of the periodontal pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis. 2013 Jan 1;36(4):665-77. J Alzheimers Dis.