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Women in STEM with Dr Petra Dieterich

Drug Target Review

I went back to school in 2016 to study for an MBA at Imperial College in London, this time finding a much more diverse cultural environment. Petra holds a D.Phil in synthetic organic chemistry and an MBA from Imperial College London. Do you have any challenges as a woman in STEM?

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The Nobel Prize winning power of click chemistry

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link] key-initiatives/moonshot-cancer- initiative/blue-ribbon-panel/blue- ribbon-panel-report-2016.pdf About the author: José Mejía Oneto, Founder and CEO of Shasqi, has a background in orthopaedic surgery and organic chemistry. Baskin, Prescher, Laughlin, Agard, Chang, Miller, Lo, Codelli, Bertozzi. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.

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Could NfL accelerate drug development for neurodegenerative diseases?

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Interest in neurodegeneration amongst the public has increased in recent months due to several high-profile cases including rugby player Doddy Weir, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) in 2016, and actor Bruce Willis, who was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) earlier this year.

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Antibody Drug Conjugates: windows of opportunity

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The drivers behind the demand for ADCs Providing more targeted therapeutic options in the oncology space has underpinned the rapid growth of the ADC market; between 2016 to 2020, the US ADC market grew by 45 percent to a value of nearly $1.5 Petra holds a D.Phil in synthetic organic chemistry and am MBA from Imperial College London.

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AI At The Frontier: Empowering Early Career Professionals In Drug Discovery

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After graduating, Miles went on to work as a scientist on AstraZeneca’s Research and Development graduate programme, working on projects in biocatalysis, computational organic chemistry and machine learning for drug discovery.

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Article Periodic Thank You USGS estimates at least 45% of U.S. tap water contains PFAS

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These carbon-fluorine bonds are some of the strongest in organic chemistry, meaning that most PFAS readily persist in the environment. from 2016-2021 in addition to temporal sampling at three separate locations. The study tested tap water collected from 716 locations in the U.S. whose drinking water may contain PFAS.

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Analysis Chemical Thank You PFAS regulation in California (late 2023 edition)

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The carbon-fluorine atoms bond is one of the strongest bonds in organic chemistry, meaning that PFAS do not easily break down in the environment. The typical hallmark of a PFAS is at least one fully fluorinated carbon atom, where all hydrogen atoms bonded to the carbon have been replaced with fluorine atoms.