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$3M funding for plant-inspired halogenated small molecule drugs

Drug Discovery World

Biomia, the first company spun out from BioInnovation Institute’s Bio Studio programme, has secured $3 million in pre-seed financing from an international syndicate of investors. The post $3M funding for plant-inspired halogenated small molecule drugs appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW).

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This week in drug discovery (26-30 August) 

Drug Discovery World

With the launch of an international clinical trial investigating BioNTech’s mRNA lung cancer vaccine announced this week, our news highlights focus on clinical trials, including studies of a monoclonal antibody and small molecule GLP-1 agonist for obesity, and a muscarinic M4 selective agonist for schizophrenia.

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Innovative NMR strategy provides structure of first-in-class small molecule inhibitors of the dual-specificity kinase MKK4 (MKK4i)

Zobio

As part of an international team, led by HepaRegeniX, ZoBio solved the structure of an inhibitor bound to the kinase MKK4 using a non-classical approach to structural.

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New DDW Highlights podcast: 2 September 2024

Drug Discovery World

With the launch of an international clinical trial investigating BioNTech’s mRNA lung cancer vaccine announced this week, our news highlights focus on clinical trials, including studies of a monoclonal antibody and small molecule GLP-1 agonist for obesity, and a muscarinic M4 selective agonist for schizophrenia.

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DDW Highlights: 2 September 2024

Drug Discovery World

With the launch of an international clinical trial investigating BioNTech’s mRNA lung cancer vaccine announced this week, our news highlights focus on clinical trials, including studies of a monoclonal antibody and small molecule GLP-1 agonist for obesity, and a muscarinic M4 selective agonist for schizophrenia.

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Connecting teams and designsets across the DMTA cycle

Drug Discovery World

The event emphasised the importance of creating a solid infrastructure within any discovery project to enable close collaboration with external partners to effecively track molecules and ideas.

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Study finds dual receptor beta-agonist promotes healthy weight loss

Drug Discovery World

A new research paper has validated the mechanism of action of the Atrogi’s first-in-class, small molecule, ATR-127, in combating obesity and metabolic complications. We are now advancing our next generation small molecules for the treatment of obesity to IND preparatory studies in H1 next year and expect to enter the clinic in 2026.”