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Evotec Achieves Key Milestones in Its Collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb On Targeted Protein Degradation

The Pharma Data

Evotec and Bristol Myers Squibb (the successor in interest to Celgene ) initiated their long-term strategic drug discovery and development partnership in the field of targeted protein degradation in 2018 with the goal to identify novel drug targets.

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Women in STEM with Juliet Williams

Drug Target Review

Shortly after finishing my studies, I landed my first job in industry working on cell biology research for several disease indications. TPD engages the body’s natural protein recycling system by selectively eliminating disease-causing proteins, ultimately addressing the root cause of disease.

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Sosei Heptares and Captor Therapeutics Enter Strategic Technology Collaboration Focused on Targeted GPCR Degradation as Novel Approach for Drug Design

The Pharma Data

Targeted protein degradation (TPD) is an approach whereby the body’s natural process for degrading proteins is diverted using small molecule drugs to eliminate disease-causing proteins. . TOKYO and CAMBRIDGE, England , Dec. No further financial details are disclosed.

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How to Get Drugs Into the Brain

Drug Hunter

Obtaining adequate drug exposure in the brain is key to treating CNS diseases effectively. Prodrugs Remain in “Proof-of-Concept” Stages Prodrug strategies for CNS deliver have also been applied with varying success , with the most famous example being L-Dopa for Parkinson’s disease. Figure 18.

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Arvinas, Inc. Announces Pricing of $400 Million Public Offering of Common Stock

The Pharma Data

Nasdaq: ARVN), a clinical-stage biotechnology company creating a new class of drugs based on targeted protein degradation using its PROTAC ® Discovery Engine, today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 5,714,286 shares of its common stock at a price of $70.00 NEW HAVEN, Conn., Goldman Sachs & Co.

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Sosei Heptares to Explore Structure-based Drug Discovery (SBDD) Approaches to Ion Channels through Strategic Technology Collaboration with Metrion Biosciences

The Pharma Data

Joint drug discovery program to focus on a single ion channel that is a well-validated target for neurological diseases. They are well established drug targets, particularly in neurological and cardiovascular diseases, but many remain undrugged or poorly drugged, and may be tractable to structure-based approaches.

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Biotech Risk Cycles: Assets And Platforms

LifeSciVC

Today’s market likes products. Investors, especially in the public markets, only want late stage de-risked assets. Or so the conventional wisdom goes in the equity capital markets these days. The tone of today’s market reveals it’s close to suffering those latter conditions. Platforms aren’t in vogue anymore.