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International Women’s Day: Female life science leaders

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For International Women’s Day, DDW’s Diana Spencer celebrates some of the women in leadership making an impact on the drug discovery and life sciences sector. The life sciences sector has traditionally outperformed others when it comes to attracting women to its workforce.

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2023 cancer research highlights: Drug development at its best

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Using IgE to treat cancer In the UK, a Cancer Research UK-funded clinical trial has shown, for the first time, that a new class of antibody could benefit cancer patients whose existing treatments have stopped working. The drug, MOv18 IgE (an anti-folate receptor alpha IgE antibody), was developed by researchers at King’s College London.

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UK-Dutch alliance to strengthen early clinical oncology research

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Under the partnership, KWF intends to provide funding to enable the development of select early phase clinical programmes through Cancer Research UK’s Centre for Drug Development (CDD). Both parties will have the opportunity to identify and nominate potential projects for clinical development.

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FSP Engagements Continue to Gain Popularity, Drive Success

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A large majority of drug developers utilize FSP or hybrid FSP/FSO models, half are “heavy users” Heavy users: Those that use FSP or hybrid FSP/FSO models for most of their clinical development outsourcing. Heavy users leverage these models for nearly three-quarters of their outsourcing.

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Europe: Where is the drug discovery innovation?

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Even before this, however, Amsterdam was established as an important centre for drug development. This pedigree has attracted beneficial international collaborations. Professor Dr Carla van Gils, Director of KWF, comments: “Many of academia’s most innovative agents can be difficult to bring into clinical development.

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What can patients do to give input into clinical trial design? 

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Chaired by Karin Blumer, Director of Global Patient Engagement at Novartis, the first event in this track, called ‘Patient Engagement: Driving Patient Advocacy to Inform Patient Centric Development’, looked into the multi-layered importance of involving patients in the drug development process, particularly in this case for gene therapy.

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Drug discovery’s top-level movers and shakers

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It’s been another busy month for senior appointments in the drug discovery sector. David Favre, Chief Development Officer, SpliceBio Dr Favre brings more than 25 years of experience in gene therapy, immunology and drug development throughout academia and the biopharma industry.

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