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How to find a drug: the past, present and future of small molecule drug discovery?

DrugBaron

Despite the current hype around so called “advanced therapies”, which range from gene editing to cell therapies, and the inexorable advance of biologic therapeutics such as monoclonal antibodies, even in 2022 the majority of drugs in development and reaching patients are still small organic molecules.

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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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Roche acquires Irish biotech firm Inflazome

The Pharma Data

Swiss pharma company to acquire biotech for $449m (€380m). Swiss pharma company Roche is set to acquire Irish biotech firm Inflazome for an upfront payment of $449m (€380m). Activated NLRP3 is involved in the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-1?

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Claims that AI will “revolutionise pharma R&D” are (almost entirely) hype

DrugBaron

Billions of dollars have been invested in companies promising to “revolutionise pharma R&D” through the application of artificial intelligence – but it is now clear that global pharma companies, and not just tech bro’s, are buying into the claims. And there is no doubt that there is plenty of room for improvement.

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Navigating the partnering galaxy

Dark Matter Blog

Since our company’s founding in 2015, we have taken the long view and been singularly focused on building an extremely flexible and broadly applicable platform that can develop a host of RNA‑targeted small molecules (rSMs) to deliver precision medicines for dozens of targets that have been out of reach for conventional approaches.

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Sosei Heptares scores $5m milestone payment from Pfizer

The Pharma Data

The collaboration has leveraged Sosei’s StaR technology and Structure-based Drug Design (SBDD) capabilities to design oral small molecules that modulate different G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) targets across multiple disease areas.

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Metabolism-Mediated Loss of Radiolabel

Metabolite Tales Blog

The paper, written by a consortium of scientists from several big pharma companies, points out that discussions around multi labelling are happening with more frequency due to the increase in larger molecular weight small molecules being developed.