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This week in drug discovery (30 Oct-3 Nov)  

Drug Discovery World

New UK therapy option for hard-to-treat lymphoma The MHRA has granted conditional marketing authorisation for Abbvie’s Tepkinly (epcoritamab) as a bispecific treatment for adults with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) after two or more lines of systemic therapy.

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Machine learning: A useful tool in the development of next generation antibody therapeutics

Drug Discovery World

Modern experimental procedures, such as immunisation, B-cell screening, and synthetic library generation, have been pivotal in developing approximately 80 FDA-approved antibody therapeutics. These targets, along with many others, are universally deemed as ‘difficult-to-drug’ targets.

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How Improving Diversity Can Benefit Clinical Trials

Alta Sciences

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a draft guidance to ensure greater diversity in clinical trials, which is expected to become a final guidance by June 2025. Why Diversity in Clinical Trials Matters A wide variety of factors, from age or biological sex to environmental conditions and lifestyle choices (e.g.,