Drug Discovery World

MARCH 12, 2024

DDW’s Megan Thomas speaks to experts from the drug discovery industry about their predictions on what 2024 holds for our sector. Amanda Halford, President Bioprocess, Cytiva “In 2024, the emphasis will remain on novel mAbs, specifically antibody drug conjugates. This is part of a series of predictions based on different themes.

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Drug Discovery World

JUNE 11, 2024

With the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting concluding this week, the headline news has all focused on breakthrough cancer research shared at the event. The post New DDW Highlights podcast: 11 June 2024 appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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Drug Discovery World

JUNE 24, 2024

It’s been another busy week in the world of cell therapy, with the first use of CAR-T therapy for stiff-person syndrome, a study debunking the risk of secondary cancers from CAR-T and a number of cell therapy research findings revealed at EHA2024. The post DDW Highlights: 24 June 2024 appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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Drug Discovery World

JUNE 11, 2024

With the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting concluding this week, the headline news has all focused on breakthrough cancer research shared at the event. The post DDW Highlights: 11 June 2024 appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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Drug Discovery World

JUNE 24, 2024

It’s been another busy week in the world of cell therapy, with the first use of CAR-T therapy for stiff-person syndrome, a study debunking the risk of secondary cancers from CAR-T and a number of cell therapy research findings revealed at EHA2024.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 8, 2024

Whether it is successful seed funding or dedicated investment, this money enables scientists to produce top-quality research which will in turn result in discoveries and drugs that help tackle disease and areas of unmet need. The post New DDW Highlights episode: 8 May 2024 appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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Drug Discovery World

JUNE 4, 2024

The selected news highlights this week report breakthrough findings from early phase research and development, mainly preclinical studies and Phase I clinical trials, including a drug that can prevent sepsis deaths, a microbiome based immuno-oncology candidate, and a plant-based therapy for diarrhoea.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 1, 2024

DDW’s Megan Thomas speaks to industry experts and thought leaders about the potential for therapeutic antibodies in 2024. Artificial intelligence (AI) AI is on everyone’s minds as we head into 2024; of course, this is across not just the drug discovery spectrum but is particularly relevant to therapeutic antibodies.

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Drug Discovery World

JUNE 4, 2024

The selected news highlights this week report breakthrough findings from early phase research and development, mainly preclinical studies and Phase I clinical trials, including a drug that can prevent sepsis deaths, a microbiome based immuno-oncology candidate, and a plant-based therapy for diarrhoea.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 15, 2024

With clinical trials in North America and Europe for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease via the injection of dopaminergic neurons, the first patient data from Vertex on the delivery of beta-islet cells and continued progress in the eye, we can expect to see this grow in 2024.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 26, 2024

DDW’s Megan Thomas caught up with Oliver Rausch, Chief Scientific Officer at Storm Therapeutics, following the ESMO Targeted Anticancer Therapies Congress 2024, a global meeting focusing on promising new anticancer targets and agents, focusing on those in early phase clinical development. MT: What’s next for STORM’s research?

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 15, 2024

The cancer research news has been coming thick and fast from the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in San Diego this week, so this round-up focuses on drug discovery in oncology. The post DDW Highlights: 15 April 2024 appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 8, 2024

Whether it is successful seed funding or dedicated investment, this money enables scientists to produce top-quality research which will in turn result in discoveries and drugs that help tackle disease and areas of unmet need. The post DDW Highlights: 8 May 2024 appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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Drug Discovery World

JUNE 20, 2024

With nearly 479,000 trials 6 registered globally as of early 2024, we are facing an outright data avalanche. With all these incredibly diverse and complex research datasets, how do we sift through them to find those golden insights that can lead to more efficient clinical trials and, ultimately, better healthcare outcomes?

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

DDW’s Megan Thomas spoke to experts from the drug discovery industry about their predictions on what 2024 holds for our sector. Israel Mirsky, Director, Pharma Collective “The emerging narrative of decentralised science (DeSci) will be a major driver of the looming 2024 crypto bull market.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 3, 2024

DDW’s Megan Thomas talks to Nicola McCarthy, Head of Research at the Milner Therapeutics Institute. NM: I’m Head of Research at the Milner Therapeutics Institute, which is part of the University of Cambridge, and I oversee both wet and dry labs of the institute. MT: Can you provide a top-line summary of your research?

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 15, 2024

The cancer research news has been coming thick and fast from the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in San Diego this week, so this round-up focuses on drug discovery in oncology. The post New DDW Highlights podcast: 15 April 2024 appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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Drug Discovery World

JUNE 28, 2024

Currently, no medications can cure this, though 2024 has proved to be a poignant year of developments in neuroscience, especially considering the challenges faced in previous decades. The post New eReport: Advances in neuroscience research appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 11, 2024

The Program Committee Chairs commented: “It has been an educational, enlightening, and inspiring week of captivating cancer science and research. As we participate in our closing sessions of the AACR Annual Meeting 2024, let us say what an honour and pleasure it has been to serve as the Program Committee Chairs for this year’s meeting.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 8, 2024

The American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting launched on Sunday 7 April in San Diego with an Opening Plenary Session showcasing cutting-edge technological advances opening new frontiers in cancer science.

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Vial

MARCH 6, 2024

The field of clinical research is a dynamic and rapidly evolving one. One way to ensure that you are at the forefront of these developments is by attending clinical research conferences. In 2024, an array of these conferences are scheduled to take place across the world. Learn more on their website here.

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Drug Discovery World

MAY 13, 2024

The post New DDW Highlights episode: 8 May 2024 appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW). You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify , Google Play and Apple Podcasts.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 27, 2024

The vaccines currently in late-stage development hold promise in tackling the disease burden of tuberculosis (TB), says data and analytics company GlobalData on World Tuberculosis Day 2024. World TB Day is marked annually on 24 March, the anniversary of the discovery of the causative mycobacterium by Dr Robert Koch.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 15, 2024

This week has seen a number of significant discoveries by researchers in academic institutions, in some cases in partnership with industry, emphasising the important role universities play in early-stage drug discovery. The post DDW Highlights: 15 January 2024 appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 15, 2024

This week has seen a number of significant discoveries by researchers in academic institutions, in some cases in partnership with industry, emphasising the important role universities play in early-stage drug discovery. The post New DDW Highlights podcast: 15 January 2024 appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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KIF1A

MAY 4, 2024

Each week, Dr. Dylan Verden of KIF1A.ORG summarizes newly published KIF1A-related research and highlights progress in rare disease research and therapeutic development. In this week’s article, researchers in Brazil identified a KIF1A mutation in a cohort of patients with congenital ataxia.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

For Rare Disease Day 2024, Diana Spencer provides a round-up of the latest breakthroughs in the treatment of rare disease. The post Five 2024 breakthroughs in the treatment of rare diseases appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 25, 2024

“The potential for CAR T as a therapeutic option for autoimmune disease has captured the collective imagination of the scientific community,” said Zachary Roberts, Executive Vice President of Research & Development and Chief Medical Officer of Allogene.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 29, 2024

The post New DDW Highlights podcast: 29 April 2024 appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW). These include the detection of new targets for skin cancer treatment, the benefits of vitamin D for cancer prevention, an extended approval in the EU for a CAR-T myeloma therapy and the discovery of an unusual source of targeted treatments.

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Perficient: Drug Development

MAY 28, 2024

On Sunday, May 19th, 2024, 21 individuals consisting of Perficient employees and their family members, participated in the 2024 Michigan Kidney Walk at the Detroit Zoo. More than 80 cents of every dollar raised goes to research, patient services, professional education, public health education, and community services.

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Drug Discovery World

MARCH 8, 2024

In her day-to-day role, she is responsible for the development of UCB’s epilepsy discovery strategy, working with researchers to advance understanding of epilepsies while ensuring candidates for a future clinical treatment pipeline to improve the lives of those living with the condition. Read the interview. Read the interview.

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Drug Discovery World

APRIL 29, 2024

Dr Currien MacDonald, Medical Chair Director at WCG, discusses the challenges and opportunities presented by cannabis research. Research support Support for researching cannabidiol is expanding. More importantly, cannabis research received additional governmental support for continued investigation at the end of 2022 with H.R.8454,

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SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The 17th World Congress on Polyphenols Applications 2024, scheduled for September 19-20, 2024, at Università degli Studi di Milano Statale in Italy, has revealed its program. This congress aims to bridge the latest scientific research on polyphenols with their potential to promote health.

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KIF1A

APRIL 13, 2024

Each week, Dr. Dylan Verden of KIF1A.ORG summarizes newly published KIF1A-related research and highlights progress in rare disease research and therapeutic development. Read the Article See the Little SENDsations website The post #ScienceSaturday: April 13, 2024 appeared first on KIF1A.

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Drug Discovery World

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Jenny Hogstrom-Stakem , Postdoctoral Research Fellow, was recently awarded the 2023 AACR-AstraZeneca Breast Cancer Research Fellowship. JHS : I’m a postdoctoral research fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/ Harvard Medical School doing breast cancer research.

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Drug Discovery World

JANUARY 29, 2024

Convened by Lifebit, the event aimed to forge connections and establish partnerships with the common goal of expediting the secure utilisation of health and biomedical data in research to save lives. The post What are the key trends in genomics and precision medicine for 2024? appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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KIF1A

MARCH 2, 2024

Each week, Dr. Dylan Verden of KIF1A.ORG summarizes newly published KIF1A-related research and highlights progress in rare disease research and therapeutic development. Studies like SPARK highlight the importance of human data in accelerating patient-facing research. Want to learn more about translational research?

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