March, 2023

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Reversible Dual-Covalent Molecular Locking of the 14-3-3/ERR? Protein–Protein Interaction as a Molecular Glue Drug Discovery Approach

Covalent Modifiers

Bente A. Somsen, Rick J.C. Schellekens, Carlo J.A. Verhoef, Michelle R. Arkin, Christian Ottmann, Peter J. Cossar, and Luc Brunsveld Journal of the American Chemical Society 2023 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c12781 Molecules that stabilize protein–protein interactions (PPIs) are invaluable as tool compounds for biophysics and (structural) biology, and as starting points for molecular glue drug discovery.

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Molecular targets of metformin against ovarian cancer based on network pharmacology

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

In this study, 255 drug targets of metformin were obtained from the BATMAN, Drugbank, PharmMapper, SwissTargetPrediction, and TargetNet databases. Meanwhile, 10,463 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in OC were screened from GSE29450, GSE10971, GSE18520, GSE14407, and TCGA + GTEx datasets. A total of 95 common targets were obtained by deintersection of drug targets of metformin and DEGs in OC.

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KATP Channel Prodrugs Reduce Inflammatory and Neuropathic Hypersensitivity, Morphine Induced Hypersensitivity, and Precipitated Withdrawal in Mice [Behavioral Pharmacology]

ASPET

Previous studies show ATP-sensitive potassium (K ATP ) channel openers can reduce hypersensitivity associated with chronic pain models in rodents, and reduce morphine tolerance. Many agonists of K ATP channels are not soluble in physiologically relevant vehicles, requiring adaptation for clinical use. This study compared the antinociception activity of novel K ATP channel targeting prodrugs, CKLP1, CKLP2, and CF3-CKLP.

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Webinar recap: Kidney Action Week webinar featuring Antidote’s Rich Towne, PharmD

Antidote

The annual Kidney Action Week is a virtual event put on by the American Kidney Fund designed to bring the entire kidney health community together for a week of amazing and informative content on all things related to kidney health. The event is filled with discussions, Q&As, webinars, and more — and this year, Antidote was thrilled to be involved!

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!

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The Big Three PBMs’ 2023 Formulary Exclusions: Observations on Insulin, Humira, and Biosimilars (rerun)

Drug Channels

This week, I’m rerunning some popular posts while I prepare for this Friday’s live video webinar: Discount Cards, Cost-Plus Pharmacies, and PBMs: Trends, Controversies, and Outlook. Click here to see the original post and comments from January 2023. For 2023, the three largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)—Caremark (CVS Health), Express Scripts (Cigna), and OptumRx (United Health Group)—have again increased the number of drugs they exclude from their standard formularies.

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Quantifying KRAS G12C Covalent Drug Inhibitor Activity in Mouse Tumors Using Mass Spectrometry

Covalent Modifiers

John C. Tran, Thomas Hunsaker, Christina Bell, Taylur P. Ma, Emily Chan, Pablo Saenz-Lopez Larrocha, Kelsey Homyk, Liling Liu, Hank La, Jialin Mao, Cecile C. de la Cruz, Kebing Yu, Maureen Beresini, William F. Forrest, Yang Xiao, Anne Jang, Natalia Samus, Nicholas Dupuis Stesco, Marija Mentinova, Stephane Parent, Gwenael Pottiez, Michael Schirm, Hans E.

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Perspectives on cutting?edge nanoparticulate drug delivery technologies based on lipids and their applications

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

Lipidic Nanoparticle drug and technology. Lipidic carriers like Liposomes, Niosomes, Solid-Lipid Nanoparticles, Micelles etc. Abstract Numerous nanotech arenas in therapeutic biology have recently provided a scientific platform to manufacture a considerable swath of unique chemical entities focusing on drugs. Recently, nanoparticulate drug delivery systems have emerged to deliver a specific drug to a specified site.

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Pharmaceutical companies with the most ‘Pediatric Exclusivity’ drugs

Drug Patent Watch

This chart shows the companies which have received the most pediatric exclusivities in the past five years. Pediatric exclusivity is granted to drug companies for conducting pediatric studies on their… The post Pharmaceutical companies with the most ‘Pediatric Exclusivity’ drugs appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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An overview of key hemophilia facts

Antidote

The rare, inherited blood disorder hemophilia is estimated to impact approximately 20,000 individuals in the United States , and over 400,000 worldwide. Currently, there is no cure for hemophilia — but through ongoing research, medical experts are continually learning more about the disease.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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NOW AVAILABLE: The 2023 Economic Report on U.S. Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers

Drug Channels

I am pleased to announce our new 2023 Economic Report on U.S. Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers , available for purchase and immediate download. Click here to download a free report overview (including key industry trends, the Table of Contents, and a List of Exhibits) New Drug Channels Institute Study Analyzes Impact of Inflation Reduction Act on U.S.

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JOIN HP&M FOR A WEBINAR: “The ‘End’ of the COVID-19 Emergency: The Ryan Haight Act, Telemedicine, and Next Steps?” on Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 12 Noon EST

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

The COVID-19 pandemic emergency forced federal regulators to take extraordinary measures to ensure that patients were permitted continued access to important medicines. These government measures included granting temporary exemptions from certain FDA and DEA legal requirements. When the public health emergency ends on May 11, 2023 , so do these exemptions.

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A covalent BTK ternary complex compatible with targeted protein degradation

Covalent Modifiers

James Schiemer, Andrew Maxwell, Reto Horst, Shenping Liu, Daniel P. Uccello, Kris Borzilleri, Nisha Rajamohan, Matthew F. Brown & Matthew F. Calabrese Nat Commun 14 , 1189, 2023 [link] Targeted protein degradation using heterobifunctional chimeras holds the potential to expand target space and grow the druggable proteome. Most acutely, this provides an opportunity to target proteins that lack enzymatic activity or have otherwise proven intractable to small molecule inhibition.

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Formulation, optimization and characterization of raloxifene hydrochloride loaded PLGA nanoparticles by using Taguchi design for breast cancer application

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

Formulation development, optimization and characterization of poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid) nanoparticles loaded with raloxifene by emulsion solvent diffusion evaporation technique to improve oral bioavailability by using Taguchi design. Abstract Multidrug resistance in breast cancer and the associated side-effects of anticancer therapies are significant hurdles in chemotherapy-based treatment.

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How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency

Clinical trial data management is increasingly challenging as studies grow in complexity. Quickly accessing and analyzing study data is vital for assessing trial progress and patient safety. In this paper, we explore real-time data access and analysis for proactive study management. We investigate using adverse event (AE) data to monitor safety and discuss a clinical analytics platform that supports collaboration and data review workflows.

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Which pharmaceutical drugs have the most drug patents in Ukraine?

Drug Patent Watch

This chart shows the drugs with the most patents in Ukraine. Patents must be filed in each country (or, in some cases regional patent office) where patent protection is desired.… The post Which pharmaceutical drugs have the most drug patents in Ukraine? appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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Understanding viral load and hepatitis B infections

Antidote

Hepatitis B , sometimes abbreviated to HBV, is a liver infection that is one of the most serious in the world. If left untreated, hepatitis B can cause fibrosis, cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, and end-stage liver disease.

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The Top 15 U.S. Pharmacies of 2022: Market Shares and Revenues at the Biggest Companies

Drug Channels

Next week, Drug Channels Institute will release our 2023 Economic Report on U.S. Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers. It’s the 14th edition of our popular and comprehensive examination of the entire U.S. drug pricing, reimbursement, and dispensing system. The exhibit below—one of 241 in our new report—provides a first look at the 15 largest organizations, ranked by total U.S. prescription dispensing revenues for calendar year 2022.

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Critical Steps Your Workplace Can Take Today to Prevent Suicide

NIOSH Science Blog: Drugs

Employers can play a vital role in suicide prevention. Historically, suicide, mental health, and well-being have been underrepresented in workplace health and safety efforts, but this is changing. In some European countries, there are workplace standards for workplace psychosocial hazards that put workers at risk for suicide. Additionally, in France, employers have been made accountable for toxic workplaces and management practices that contributed to worker suicides.[1] Some of the latest workp

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Deliver Fast, Flexible Clinical Trial Insights with Spotfire

Clinical research has entered a new era, one that requires real-time analytics and visualization to allow trial leaders to work collaboratively and to develop, at the click of a mouse, deep insights that enable proactive study management. Learn how Revvity Signals helps drug developers deliver clinical trial data insights in real-time using a fast and flexible data and analytics platform to empower data-driven decision-making.

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DEA To Host Supply Chain Conference

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

By Larry K. Houck — Perhaps you obtain controlled substance quotas or submit ARCOS reports? Maybe you identify and report suspicious orders or thefts/losses. Or you obtain import or export permits, submit import or export declarations or listed chemical DEA-486s. Do you want to learn more? You have your chance. DEA’s Diversion Control Division is hosting a Supply Chain Conference for registered manufacturers, distributors, importers and exporters on controlled substance and listed chemical r

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Evodiamine inhibits malignant progression of ovarian cancer cells by regulating lncRNA?NEAT1/miR?152?3p/CDK19 axis

Chemical Biology and Drug Design

EVO dose-dependently attenuated cell viability, induced G2/M phase arrest, and apoptosis in ovarian cancer cells. EVO regulates ovarian cancer progression through the NEAT1-miR-152-3p-CDK19 axis, which further advances the possibility of EVO as a therapeutic drug for ovarian cancer. Abstract Evodiamine (EVO) has been demonstrated to promote apoptosis of ovarian cancer cells, and upregulate miR-152-3p level in colorectal cancer.

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Which pharmaceutical companies have the most drug patents in Ukraine?

Drug Patent Watch

This chart shows the pharmaceutical companies with the most patents in Ukraine. Patents must be filed in each country (or, in some cases regional patent office) where patent protection is… The post Which pharmaceutical companies have the most drug patents in Ukraine? appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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What are the stages of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis?

Antidote

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis , or IPF, can be a frightening diagnosis. IPF is a rare, progressive lung disease that develops differently for everyone, and managing its development can be difficult. However, some individuals are able to live with the disease and stay active for many years.

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Clinical Data Like You´ve Never Seen It Before: Why Spotfire Is the Leading Tool for Clinical Analytics

Clinical development organizations face a wide array of challenges when it comes to data, many of which can impact the operational effectiveness of their clinical trials. In this whitepaper, experts from Revvity Signals explore how solutions like TIBCO® Spotfire® enable better, more streamlined studies. The whitepaper also features a success story from Ambrx, a leading biopharmaceutical company, detailing how it has leveraged Spotfire to tackle data quality and collaboration challenges in clinic

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It's Not All Bad News: Data Shows There's a Collaborative Future for 340B

Drug Channels

Today’s guest post comes from Rhiannon Naslund, Chief Marketing Officer at Kalderos. Rhiannon discusses the growing collaboration between manufacturers and covered entities regarding 340B discount claims. She goes on to describe the Kalderos Discount Hub solution that reviews claims that have a high likelihood of being a duplicate discount. To stay up-to-date with the latest drug discount developments, sign up for the Kalderos newsletter.

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Personal Protective Equipment Fit in the Construction Sector

NIOSH Science Blog: Drugs

The construction sector includes a diverse population of workers exposed to many different types of hazards. An important way to prevent occupational illness and injury related to these hazards is by implementing the hierarchy of controls. Personal protective equipment (PPE) is the last control in the hierarchy, but PPE is particularly important when the other controls cannot sufficiently reduce or eliminate hazards.

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With Oral Argument in Important False Claims Act Case Fast Approaching, A Reminder of the High Stakes

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

By JP Ellison & Faraz Siddiqui — On April 18, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in two consolidated cases that present the question of whether a defendant can “knowingly” submit a false claim under the Federal False Claims Act when the alleged falsity is based on an objectively reasonable legal interpretation of an ambiguous provision of law and no authoritative guidance from the government warned the defendant away from its interpretation.

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Looking back at Women’s History Month

BenchSci

As Women’s History Month comes to a close, I wanted to share some of the events and takeaways we learned on behalf of the BenchShe+ leadership team. We had the honor of putting together programming not just for members of the BenchShe+ employee resource group (ERG), but also hosting events company-wide to help educate and inspire our team throughout the month.

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New patent expiration for Dialysis Sups drug NORMOCARB HF 25

Drug Patent Watch

Annual Drug Patent Expirations for NORMOCARB+HF+25 Normocarb Hf 25 is a drug marketed by Dialysis Sups and is included in one NDA. There is one patent protecting this drug. This… The post New patent expiration for Dialysis Sups drug NORMOCARB HF 25 appeared first on DrugPatentWatch - Make Better Decisions.

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National Kidney Month: What to know about IgA nephropathy

Antidote

Each year in March, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases puts on National Kidney Month , a month dedicated to raising awareness about kidney health and conditions. Chronic kidney disease, a grouping of conditions that damage the kidneys , impacts around 37 million Americans, and millions of others are considered to be at an increased risk.

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Discount Cards, Cost-Plus Pharmacies, and PBMs: Trends, Controversies, and Outlook (NEW Live Video Webinar)

Drug Channels

Dr. Adam J. Fein, CEO of Drug Channels Institute (DCI) and the author of Drug Channels , invites you to join him for a new video webinar: Discount Cards, Cost-Plus Pharmacies, and PBMs: Trends, Controversies, and Outlook This event will be broadcast live on Friday, March 31, 2023, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET. This page describes the event and explains how to purchase a registration.

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Electronic Data Capture – The Basics

Crucial Data Solutions

In a time with lots of hype surrounding decentralized clinical trial (DCT) solutions, let's not lose sight of the importance of a dependable and secure electronic data capture (EDC) system. This blog post walks you through the basics to keep in mind when selecting an EDC platform for your studies. The post Electronic Data Capture – The Basics appeared first on Crucial Data Solutions.