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Highs and lows of drug repurposing 

Drug Discovery World

It’s why pharmaceutical companies will often spend up to 10 years and upwards of $1 billion before receiving regulatory approval for a drug. This is a stark contrast to the often decade-long projects that pharmaceutical companies undertake to bring a drug to market. Diving into data . Global efforts .

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Where is the promise for plant-based medicines? Part 1: Cannabis  

Drug Discovery World

Even still, these approved drug products require a licensed healthcare provider’s prescription. There are also three synthetic cannabis-related drug products, which are Marinol (dronabinol), Syndros (dronabinol), and Cesamet (nabilone).

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Some Thoughts on Biotech vs Pharma for Computational Chemists

Practical Cheminformatics

It is rare for graduate students to be exposed to tasks like optimizing pharmacokinetics or off-target binding. When someone joins a drug discovery company from academia, they are often paired with more experienced colleagues. It should be noted that not all biotechs skimp on software licenses. You’ll be glad you did.

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Building collaborations to fight a pandemic

The Pharma Data

Fortunately, as a member of the Novartis Business Development & Licensing (BD&L) department, she was in a position to try to help. After focusing on antimicrobial research for years, Leeds now heads a BD&L effort that builds relationships and collaborations with companies on the West Coast of the US and across all of Canada.

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RYBREVANTTM (amivantamab-vmjw) in the Treatment of Patients with Advanced Non-Small.

The Pharma Data

The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced preliminary data from the Phase 1 CHRYSALIS study evaluating RYBREVANT TM (amivantamab-vmjw) for the treatment of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with mesenchymal-epithelial transition (MET) exon 14 skipping (METex14) mutations.

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Update on FDA Advisory Committee’s Meeting on Aducanumab in Alzheimer’s Disease

The Pharma Data

With the opinions expressed at the Advisory Committee and the data presented, the FDA will continue the review process with a decision on whether to approve the aducanumab Biologics License Application by March 7, 2021. . Biogen licensed aducanumab from Neurimmune under a collaborative development and license agreement.

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United Therapeutics Corporation Reports Third Quarter 2020 Financial Results

The Pharma Data

Impairment of investment in privately-held company (2). Unrealized gain on investment in privately-held company (3). License-related fees (5). License-related fees (5). 2020.

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