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Metabolism of macrocyclic drugs

Metabolite Tales Blog

A combination therapy of glecaprevir and pibrentasvir has recently been implicated in a case of liver injury. Figure 2 Human metabolism of glecaprevir Involvement of gut bacteria Grazoprevir (MK5172) is also used as part of combination therapy to treat chronic hepatitis C. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 62 (21), 9418-9437.

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Metabolism of de novo designed macrocyclic drugs

Metabolite Tales Blog

A combination therapy of glecaprevir and pibrentasvir has recently been implicated in a case of liver injury. Figure 2 Human metabolism of glecaprevir Involvement of gut bacteria Grazoprevir (MK5172) is also used as part of combination therapy to treat chronic hepatitis C. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 62 (21), 9418-9437.

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Welcome to new Director David Hulcoop

The Open Targets Blog

This involves scaling up the process of making a few grams of the compound in the lab to hundreds of tonnes in a factory, in an environmentally-friendly, cost-effective way. Process chemistry is incredibly multidisciplinary: in addition to chemists, you need analytical teams to make sure everything is 99.9%