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Therapeutic Oligos 2025 Keynote Speakers Announced

Elrig

Prof Rory Johnson is an Associate Professor at University College Dublin, where his research focusses on uncovering the roles of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in human health and disease using an interdisciplinary combination of bioinformatic and experimental methods.

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Biochemical assays and deep cyclic inhibition in cancer treatment

Drug Target Review

The goal of DCI in preclinical and clinical assessments is to achieve a manyfold higher drug free-fraction pharmacokinetic (PK) C max level (the plasma concentration of therapy in a specific area of the body) to break tumour addiction to the MAPK signalling pathway followed by a rapid drop off of drug levels enabled by a short plasma half-life.

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AI in Drug Discovery - A Highly Opinionated Literature Review (Part II)

Practical Cheminformatics

Explainable AI for Bioinformatics: Methods, Tools and Applications [link] When attempting to understand ML models in drug discovery, one common approach is to rank feature importance using a method like Shapley values or LIME, then project this feature importance onto the structures of training or test set molecules.

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Accelerating Drug Discovery Through Repurposing

DrugBank

This approach capitalizes on prior investments in R&D, mitigates risk by leveraging established safety and pharmacokinetic profiles, and accelerates the delivery of treatments to patients. In Silico Drug Repurposing Advances in bioinformatics and systems biology have fueled the rise of repurposing of in silico drugs.

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Amgen To Acquire Privately Held Teneobio For $900 Million In Cash With Future Contingent Milestone Payments

The Pharma Data

. “Over the last five years, Teneobio developed leading-edge expertise in efficiently engineering differentiated multispecific and bispecific therapeutics for numerous indications with potentially better safety, efficacy and pharmacokinetic profiles than the first generation of T-cell engagers. ” In June 2021, AbbVie Inc.

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United Therapeutics Corporation Reports Third Quarter 2020 Financial Results

The Pharma Data

In October 2020 , we completed a second clinical study in healthy volunteers to compare the pharmacokinetics of Treprostinil Technosphere to Tyvaso. our initial phase 1 study of OreniPro , which has since been completed. We also recommenced startup activities for the ADVANCE CAPACITY study of ralinepag.

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Bristol Myers Squibb Announces Interim Results from Long-Term Study Reinforcing Efficacy and Safety Profile of Zeposia (ozanimod) in Patients with Relapsing Forms of Multiple Sclerosis

The Pharma Data

Inhibition of drug transporter breast cancer resistance protein has no effect on the pharmacokinetics of major active metabolites of ozanimod. Presentation Topic: Biomarkers and Bioinformatics. Presentation Topic: Reproductive Aspects and Pregnancy. Studies Evaluating Zeposia Benefit to Risk Profile. Author: Zhang. Author: Harris.