Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A compound -- one of 27 million screened in a library of potential new drugs -- reversed four types of chronic pain in animal studies, according to new research.

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Broad Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Related groups Center for the Development of Therapeutics (CDoT) A team of researchers at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, in a long-term project that has included industry collaborators at Bayer and Trueline Therapeutics, has developed a compound called BRD-810 that holds promise as a therapeutic candidate for cancer.

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BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

APRIL 22, 2024

billion, is the latest research collaboration involving small molecule drugs that modify RNA. The deal, which could be worth up to $1.8

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Chemical Biology and Drug Design

JANUARY 29, 2024

Knowledge of the molecular interactions acquired from such structures would greatly aid the discovery of small molecule inhibitors of sPLA 2 s for the treatment of snakebite envenoming.

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Drug Discovery Today

APRIL 20, 2023

Global integrated drug discovery company, Sygnature Discovery and global healthcare group Daewoong Pharmaceutical, have entered into a research collaboration agreement to accelerate the discovery of a novel small molecule to target autoimmune disease.

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Chemical Biology and Drug Design

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The assay design is to discover bioactive small molecules that restore proliferation in T. brucei We hypothesized that chemically disrupting the SLiM-binding pocket would restore proliferation in T. brucei brucei , overproducing PCNA orthologs. Testing this hypothesis is the proof-of-concept for a T. brucei-

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Chemical Biology and Drug Design

JANUARY 27, 2025

Polyphyllin VII (PPVII), a small molecule natural product derived from the traditional herb Paris polyphylla, has shown anticancer potential. ABSTRACT Docetaxel (DTX) is the preferred chemotherapeutic drug for prostate cancer (Pca), but the emergence of resistance has significantly reduced its efficacy.

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The Pharma Data

JULY 28, 2021

Novel small molecule drug candidates will target GPR75 to potentially address obesity and related co-morbidities. AstraZeneca has entered into a collaboration with Regeneron to research, develop and commercialise small molecule compounds directed against the GPR75 target with the potential to treat obesity and related co-morbidities.

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PPD

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Where companies may otherwise face multiple hand-offs and inefficiencies, the right partner can reduce transfers, minimize risk and avoid potential errors and delays.

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Drug Target Review

JULY 4, 2023

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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Broad Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Bayer and Broad Institute extend cancer therapy research collaboration By Corie Lok November 2, 2023 Breadcrumb Home Bayer and Broad Institute extend cancer therapy research collaboration Long-standing industry-academia collaboration has already resulted in three clinical oncology candidates.

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The ChEMBL-og

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In the quest to develop new drugs, understanding the 3D structure of molecules is crucial. Resources like the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) and the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) provide these 3D blueprints for many biological molecules. ChEMBL is a treasure trove of bioactivity data for countless drug-like molecules.

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Codon

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

But what if, instead, researchers could create bespoke enzymes from the ground up? The researchers generated 10,000 potential designs for serine hydrolases, each built around a fixed catalytic site composed of serine, histidine, and aspartate. Both Cas9 and hydrolases (widely used in the dairy and laundry industries) are also enzymes.

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Broad Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2023

By Allessandra DiCorato October 4, 2023 Credit: AbbVie The new small molecule inhibitor (green) sits inside the PTPN2 protein, where acidic sites are marked in red and basic sites are marked in blue. A new small-molecule drug candidate being tested in an early-stage clinical trial aims to improve patient responses to immunotherapy.

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Alta Sciences

JULY 28, 2023

Miniature Swine: Changing the Bias for Nonclinical Studies on Small Molecules and Biologics pmjackson Fri, 07/28/2023 - 16:07 Miniature swine have been widely used for research studies since the 1960s—most commonly within the scope of dermal testing due to similarities of their integument to humans. Click here to read more.

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Alta Sciences

JULY 28, 2023

Miniature Swine: Changing the Bias for Nonclinical Studies on Small Molecules and Biologics pmjackson Fri, 07/28/2023 - 16:07 Miniature swine have been widely used for research studies since the 1960s—most commonly within the scope of dermal testing due to similarities of their integument to humans. Click here to read more.

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Chemical Biology and Drug Design

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

We employed a combined strategy involving molecular docking-based virtual screening, molecular dynamics (MD) simulation, and MM/GBSA free energy calculation on existing FDA-approved drugs. Sorafenib and glimepiride simultaneously downregulated c-Maf protein expression to induce G1 phase arrest and apoptosis in myeloma cells.

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ASPET

JULY 19, 2024

Here we design an assay to screen a compound library of small molecules inhibitors. Four compounds were identified as potential small molecule inhibitors one of which, BM-8372, demonstrated significant effect in platelet aggregation assays.

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Broad Institute

MARCH 14, 2024

Related groups Liu lab Choudhary lab Fischer lab Researchers studying the role of proteins in health and disease use experimental tools that inactivate proteins, destroy them, or prevent them from being made in cells. PACE allows researchers to rapidly evolve new proteins that have useful features.

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The Pharma Data

JULY 29, 2021

Loxo Oncology at Lilly, a research and development group of Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY), and Kumquat Biosciences today announced an exclusive collaboration focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of potential novel small molecules that stimulate tumor-specific immune responses.

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DrugBank

MAY 15, 2024

Researchers would sift through natural extracts , hoping to stumble upon a compound that exhibited beneficial effects. In fact, it's one of the most exciting areas in drug research today. With billions in funding and innovative research, we're starting to see strategies that can tackle these tough targets.

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DrugBank

JULY 24, 2024

These multifunctional small molecules are like tiny spies, hijacking the body’s natural protein degradation system to remove unwanted proteins. Multifunctional Small Molecules and Peptides Beyond PROTACs, there are other exciting tools in the new drug discovery toolbox.

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Alta Sciences

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

PBSS—Human PK and Dose Prediction for Small Molecules lperez Thu, 09/14/2023 - 19:16 Image GettyImages-1075448458.jpg jpg Tags Preclinical Research URL [link] Event End Date Fri, 10/06/2023 - 12:00 Event Start Date Fri, 10/06/2023 - 12:00 Weight 1

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Drug Target Review

JUNE 15, 2023

In this article Drug Target Review’s Izzy Wood spoke to Sam Hasson, Director of Target Biology at Rgenta Therapeutics, a biotech firm in Massachusetts, US, that aims to develop small molecule therapeutics to target RNA processing. It is somewhat like how PROTACs have changed the perspective on what is a tractable therapeutic target.

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addgene Blog

JULY 25, 2024

originally developed the ELISA assay to measure antibody levels, scientists have since adapted it for a host of different proteins and small molecules from a variety of sample types (Engvall 1971). and use them in numerous fields including research and development, diagnostics, drug discovery, and food safety.

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Drug Target Review

JULY 23, 2024

Shortly after finishing my studies, I landed my first job in industry working on cell biology research for several disease indications. At the time, research and leadership roles in biotech/pharma industry were predominately held by men and there were not as many opportunities for career development and mentorship from women leaders.

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Drug Target Review

JULY 6, 2023

1 TPD is expected to challenge undruggable proteins, which are highly difficult to target by conventional small molecules. 1 The concept of TPD was first demonstrated with a heterobifunctional small molecule to degrader a protein of interest in the early 2000s.

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Drug Target Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

As the CEO of iOnctura, an innovative oncology biopharmaceutical company she co-founded in 2017, Catherine has played a key role in advancing the development of highly targeted small molecules aimed at revolutionising cancer treatment. I went on to complete my MBA and PhD at The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in drug development.

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Chemical Biology and Drug Design

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In an effort to identify new lead compounds with potential anticancer properties for further optimization, in vitro assays combined with in-silico target fishing and docking studies have been used to identify and further map out the antiproliferative and potential mode of action of molecules from a small library of compounds previously prepared in (..)

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Drug Target Review

APRIL 7, 2025

Advancements in screening technologies for small-molecule drug discovery including cellular assays, computational screening, and biophysics-based methods enhanced by structural biology breakthroughs have improved screening hit rates and facilitated the identification of drug candidates for previously undruggable targets.

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Broad Institute

OCTOBER 17, 2023

By Makenzie Kohler October 17, 2023 Credit: Allison Colorado, Broad Communications Amy Deik is a research scientist and lab manager in the Metabolomics Platform. She’d always had an interest in genetics research and moved to Boston in 2002 to work for a genetics-focused startup. What do you do as a research scientist at Broad?

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Chemical Biology and Drug Design

APRIL 16, 2023

These results suggest that small molecule competitive inhibition against the SusG protein could impact the entire Bt Sus and eliminate or reduce the system's ability to metabolize starch.

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DrugBank

MAY 22, 2024

In the dynamic world of drug discovery, the notion of "undruggable" targets presents both a significant challenge and an intriguing frontier for researchers and pharmaceutical companies. Here, researchers are looking at allosteric modulation—hitting different parts of the molecule to increase selectivity.

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Drug Hunter

MAY 18, 2023

researching DNA photoproducts related to skin cancer. Her interest in research landed her a job at Genentech, where she focused on ADCs—and learned other skills critical to her career. Remember my post-doc research? In her small molecule DMPK research, proteomics also served to identify reactive metabolites (e.g.,

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Drug Target Review

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Preclinical research demonstrated that removing SRC-3 from Tregs resulted in long-lasting tumour eradication and prevented growth of new tumours. Could you provide more information about CoRegen’s SRC small-molecule inhibitor (SMI) and SRC small-molecule enhancer (SMs) within your portfolio?

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Atomwise Blog

MARCH 9, 2022

At the American Chemical Society Spring National Meeting & Expo, Atomwise members were selected to present their research and work. Learn what our Atoms have been working on below and visit Atomwise at ACS Spring 2022 National Meeting for other presentation sessions.

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Drug Target Review

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Autophagy in a hot topic in scientific circles; the number of papers that mention the process has risen almost exponentially since Yoshinori Ohsumi was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2016 for his research into its underlying mechanisms. Autophagy boosters, in contrast, are conventional small molecule drugs. cited 2023 Sep 5].

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