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Highs and lows of drug repurposing 

Drug Discovery World

It’s why pharmaceutical companies will often spend up to 10 years and upwards of $1 billion before receiving regulatory approval for a drug. This is a stark contrast to the often decade-long projects that pharmaceutical companies undertake to bring a drug to market.

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Update on FDA Advisory Committee’s Meeting on Aducanumab in Alzheimer’s Disease

The Pharma Data

The Advisory Committee also voted 0 yes, 7 no and 4 uncertain on the question, “Does Study 103 (PRIME) provide supportive evidence of the effectiveness of aducanumab for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease?”, Aducanumab (BIIB037) is an investigational human monoclonal antibody studied for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.

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Where is the promise for plant-based medicines? Part 1: Cannabis  

Drug Discovery World

For example, the FDA has not approved a marketing application for cannabis for the treatment of any disease or condition to date 1. Even still, these approved drug products require a licensed healthcare provider’s prescription.

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Some Thoughts on Biotech vs Pharma for Computational Chemists

Practical Cheminformatics

It is rare for graduate students to be exposed to tasks like optimizing pharmacokinetics or off-target binding. When someone joins a drug discovery company from academia, they are often paired with more experienced colleagues. It should be noted that not all biotechs skimp on software licenses. You’ll be glad you did.

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Building collaborations to fight a pandemic

The Pharma Data

As an expert in infectious diseases, Jennifer Leeds could see the storm brewing. Fortunately, as a member of the Novartis Business Development & Licensing (BD&L) department, she was in a position to try to help. Jennifer Leeds , Head of West Coast Search and Evaluation, NIBR Business Development & Licensing.

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RYBREVANTTM (amivantamab-vmjw) in the Treatment of Patients with Advanced Non-Small.

The Pharma Data

The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced preliminary data from the Phase 1 CHRYSALIS study evaluating RYBREVANT TM (amivantamab-vmjw) for the treatment of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with mesenchymal-epithelial transition (MET) exon 14 skipping (METex14) mutations.

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United Therapeutics Corporation Reports Third Quarter 2020 Financial Results

The Pharma Data

Impairment of investment in privately-held company (2). Unrealized gain on investment in privately-held company (3). License-related fees (5). License-related fees (5). 2020.

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