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Tackling pain and mental health with plant-based medicines

Drug Discovery World

RA: Biomia is developing drug candidates for pain, addiction and mental health conditions. What are some of the historical challenges with these drugs? RA: What advantages does a plant-based approach bring to drug development? Also, most second- generation antipsychotics have delayed onset, which may influence patient adherence.

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Re-Imagining Med Chem Strategies: the Tyranny of the n+1 Compound

DrugBaron

Finding small molecule drugs is much harder than finding a needle in a haystack – discovering the right arrangement of atoms to bind precisely to a protein target to elicit a particular response is a problem of vast dimensionality. Yet the situation with small molecules is even worse.

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Global advances in synthetic biology

Drug Discovery World

Lu Rahman selects some recent synthetic biology innovations and the potential they hold to benefit drug discovery. . The rapidly growing area of synthetic biology – including molecular biology, biotechnology, biophysics, and genetic engineering – is having a marked impact on the drug discovery landscape.

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AWS helps Pfizer accelerate drug development and clinical manufacturing

The Pharma Data

As a result, Pfizer can maximize uptime for equipment such as centrifuges, agitators, pulverizers, coaters, and air handlers used in clinical drug manufacturing. The overall focus of this collaboration is to support Pfizer in more rapidly and reliably producing new drugs and evaluating their potential health benefit for patients.

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Drug Discovery and Medicinal Chemistry in the Era of Automation - Webinar Recap

The Strateos Blog: Drug Discovery

On July 20th, Strateos hosted a webinar entitled Drug Discovery and Medicinal Chemistry in the Era of Automation. To advance a lead candidate through to clinical trials in traditional small molecule pipelines, it can take on average 6+ years. Daniel Rines, Ph.D., Director of R&D Strategy and Vince Yeh, Ph.D.,