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Turning science into business: An optimised alternative to antibodies

Drug Discovery World

DS: What motivated you and Dr David Bunka, CTO, to create Aptamer and did you imagine you would one day be operating on such a global scale?    AT : We initially met at the University of Leeds, where David was a post-doctoral researcher studying aptamers, and I was completing my PhD. Optimer binders are engineered to overcome these problems.

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

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She is currently a Senior drug discovery scientist working across Cell Engineering, Cell Biology and Functional Genomics teams, using CRISPR/Cas9 and Next Generation Sequencing for target identification, target validation and drug development in the oncology disease area. big pharma or startups/spin off? What pro/cons?

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What it takes to make cancer research more inclusive

Drug Discovery World

In recent years, governments, institutes, pharma companies, and funding bodies have taken significant measures to proactively address cancer disparities. Often, in an attempt to flag risks associated with the disease, a scoring system is used if the patient identifies with a particular race or ethnicity.

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Scaling Phage Therapy

Codon

alone, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ” A Global View Even as advances in computing and molecular biology usher in the era of a new, high-tech “phage therapy 2.0”, At least a million people die from drug-resistant bacterial infections every year.

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