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Antibody Drug Conjugates: windows of opportunity

Drug Target Review

These therapies have broadened treatment options for patients to expand beyond the more traditional small molecule drug alternatives. 2 However, when dosed at the MTD, ADCs display improved efficacy over small molecules in oncology trials. 3D rendering of Antibody Drug Conjugate Molecules.

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MicroED: From Powder to Structure in a Half-Hour

NIH Director's Blog: Drug Development

Now comes word of another absolutely incredible use of cryo-EM: determining with great ease and exquisite precision the structure of the smaller organic chemical compounds, or “small molecules,” that play such key roles in biological exploration and drug development. Also analyzed were eight less-familiar small molecules.

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Unlocking the potential of antibody drug conjugates

Drug Target Review

Raffaele Colombo, PhD, is Associate Director, Medicinal Chemistry at Zymeworks Inc. He has more than 14 years of experience in studying the design and synthesis of new payloads and drug-linkers for antibodies, small molecules, and nanoparticles. Dr Rich received a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Alberta.

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Women in Stem with Dr Rachel Lagiakos

Drug Target Review

Coupling my desire to be a scientist with my keen sense of adventure, I moved to Alaska out of high school to begin my undergraduate studies in chemistry, applying myself to my STEM classes whilst also climbing mountains and chasing Northern Lights.

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Silly Things Large Language Models Do With Molecules

Practical Cheminformatics

Testing Claude’s Molecule Generation Ability To test the molecule generation ability of Claude, a general-purpose LLM from Anthropic, I prompted it to generate analogs for hits from fragment screens. These fragment hits are small molecules with between 11 and 21 heavy atoms.

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AI At The Frontier: Empowering Early Career Professionals In Drug Discovery

Elrig

There, I supported AI-enabled DD efforts in their small molecule portfolio. After graduating, Miles went on to work as a scientist on AstraZeneca’s Research and Development graduate programme, working on projects in biocatalysis, computational organic chemistry and machine learning for drug discovery.

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Welcome to new Director David Hulcoop

The Open Targets Blog

After completing my PhD in organic chemistry at the University of Cambridge, I went to Canada as a Leverhulme Trust postdoctoral fellow. I then moved back to the UK to work as a process chemist at GSK, designing the manufacturing routes for small molecule drugs. I’m a chemist by training.