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The Collaboration Between Industry and Academia in Drug Development

DrugBank

Drug development is challenging, including not only the complexities of biomolecular drug mechanisms but also the convolutions of regulatory pathways and commercialization strategies. Improved Return on Investment (ROI) Industry-academic partnerships can enhance the financial return on drug development investments.

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From Bench to Bedside and Back Again: Strategies for Effectively Leveraging Pre-Clinical Data to Accelerate R&D

Fierce BioTech

As recently as 2015, researchers concluded that anywhere from 50-80% of pre-clinical animal (in vivo) research data was irreproducible,1 representing a monetary loss of more than $28 billion. Best practices for capturing reproducible and accurate in vivo data to reduce failure in clinical trials – the most expensive phase of drug development.

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Tagging Essential Malaria Genes to Advance Drug Development

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

1985 Sep;145(2):356-361. [5] 5] Malaria’s impact worldwide. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [6] 6] Global Technical Strategy for Malaria 2016-2030. World Health Organization.

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Operation Warp Speed for Rare Diseases: Expected Boom in Drug Development and Approval

Advarra

Given the relatively small populations affected by any one rare disease or condition, a pharmaceutical company developing an orphan drug may reasonably expect the final approved drug to generate relatively small sales (when compared with the drug development costs) and consequently incur a financial loss.

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The power of combinations in blood cancers

Drug Target Review

Before joining AstraZeneca, he served as the Chief of the Lymphoma Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and led a laboratory focused on drug development for patients with lymphoid malignancies. 2015);126(1):9-16. 2015);126(4):454-462. Strati P, Shanafelt TD.

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Got It Down Cold: Cryo-Electron Microscopy Named Method of the Year

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Discovery

In fact, cryo-EM has improved so much that its mapping performance now rivals that of X-ray crystallography [1], the long-time workhorse of drug developers and structural biologists. Very impressive, and just one of the many reasons why the journal Nature Methods recently named cryo-EM its “Method of the Year” for 2015 [2].

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Creative Minds: Breaking Size Barriers in Cryo-Electron Microscopy

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Discovery

He envisions generating within a matter of days or weeks the precise structure of an average-sized protein involved in a disease, and then potentially handing it off as an atomic model for drug developers to target for more effective treatment. And the good news keeps coming.

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