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Metabolism of macrocyclic drugs

Metabolite Tales Blog

However, in the quest to tackle challenging disease targets with difficult drug binding sites, there is revived interest in developing this compound type to offer unique solutions. Current macrocycles in clinical use generally focus on treatment of infectious diseases, cancer and auto-immune disorders.

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Metabolism of de novo designed macrocyclic drugs

Metabolite Tales Blog

However, in the quest to tackle challenging disease targets with difficult drug binding sites, there is revived interest in developing this compound type to offer unique solutions. Current macrocycles in clinical use generally focus on treatment of infectious diseases, cancer and auto-immune disorders.

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Welcome to new Director David Hulcoop

The Open Targets Blog

This involves scaling up the process of making a few grams of the compound in the lab to hundreds of tonnes in a factory, in an environmentally-friendly, cost-effective way. Process chemistry is incredibly multidisciplinary: in addition to chemists, you need analytical teams to make sure everything is 99.9%