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The latest episode of the DDW Highlights podcast is now available to listen to below. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates.
Clinical trials of all stages have dominated the DDW news section this week. All the stories represent a significant step forward for drug discovery, either due to the innovative nature of the therapies being studied, or the unique methods employed in the trial.
You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify, Google Play and Apple Podcasts.
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled “The revolutionary impact of understanding genomics”, which covers two articles written for DDW Volume 24 – Issue 3, Summer 2023. They are called: “Open science, genomics, and the quiet revolution in our approach to pharma” and “Junk DNA: How the dark genome is changing RNA therapies”.
In the first article, Evan Floden, CEO of Seqera Labs, examines how data sharing platforms are impacting cancer and genomics research.
In the second article, Samir Ounzain, CEO & Co-Founder of HAYA Therapeutics, looks at how a better understanding of our DNA can lead to increased activity for RNA therapeutics.
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The latest episode of the DDW Highlights podcast is now available to listen to below. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates.
Our news round-up this week focuses on start-ups, the innovative fledgling companies that are coming through and sparking new life into various areas of drug discovery.
You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify, Google Play and Apple Podcasts.
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled “Where are the global epicentres of drug discovery innovation?”, which covers two articles written for DDW Volume 24 – Issue 2, Spring 2023 of DDW. They are called: Where are the hottest drug discovery hubs in the US? and Global start-ups: where is the innovation?
In the first article, I take a snapshot of the US biotech market and some of the ongoing research coming out of the US.
In the second, DDW editors take a look at some key global activity taking place around the world for drug discovery and life sciences start-ups.
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The latest episode of the DDW Highlights podcast is now available to listen to below. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates.
It’s been a mixed bag of news for gene therapies this week, ranging from huge successes in treating sight impairment, cystic fibrosis and hearing loss, to the quick sale of a previously successful gene therapy developer.
You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify, Google Play and Apple Podcasts.
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The latest episode of the DDW Highlights podcast is now available to listen to below. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates.
Following the news of cuts to medical research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), this week we focus on some positive drug discovery news from North America, including FDA priority review for a number of innovative therapeutics and a new US centre for rare disease research.
You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify, Google Play and Apple Podcasts.
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In this podcast we speak to experts from Lonza and Oxford Nanopore about their collaboration to bring direct mRNA sequencing (including N1-Methyl-pseudouridine) to a regulated environment and establish the new gold standard in sequencing technology.
We discuss how nanopore sequencing will be used to perform unbiased identity testing while enabling the simultaneous analyses of multiple critical quality attributes such as integrity (mRNA length and poly-A tail length) and capping.
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The latest episode of the DDW Highlights podcast is now available to listen to below. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates.
Love is in their air this Valentine’s Day as this week’s news round-up celebrates the importance of collaboration in life sciences, whether that’s in the sharing of data, technology, or expertise.
You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify, Google Play and Apple Podcasts.
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled “The continued evidence of AI’s drug discovery value”, which covers two articles written for DDW Volume 24 – Issue 2, Spring 2023 of DDW. They are called: “How generative AI could improve drug discovery” and “Can artificial intelligence help craft new medicines?”
Absci is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) drug creation company with goals of bringing better biologics to patients more quickly. In the first article, DDW Editor Reece Armstrong speaks to Sean McClain, the Founder and CEO of Absci about how generative AI is being used within drug discovery and the company’s work in the antibodies sector.
In the second article, Professor Sonika Bhatnagar explores how artificial intelligence is enabling drug discovery at rates never seen before.
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The latest episode of the DDW Highlights podcast is now available. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates.
Following World Cancer Day on 4 February, the news round-up this week focuses on new approaches to the treatment of cancer, including radiopharmaceuticals, programmable cell depletion and preventative vaccines.
You can listen here, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify or Google Play.
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The latest episode of the DDW Highlights podcast is now available to listen to below. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates.
In the same week that Phesi revealed that breast cancer is the most studied disease for the fourth year in a row, we have seen a number of breakthroughs in the treatment of solid tumours, both in the early preclinical and later clinical stages of research.
You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify, Google Play and Apple Podcasts.
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The latest episode of the DDW Highlights podcast is now available to listen to below. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates.
This week we have seen a number of positive announcements related to the early clinical and preclinical development of immunotherapies, including an islet cell therapy for diabetes, an antibody-drug conjugate and a CAR-T therapy for multiple myeloma, and a peptide-drug conjugate and a vaccine for head and neck cancers.
You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify, Google Play and Apple Podcasts.
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The latest episode of the DDW Highlights podcast is now available to listen to and watch below. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates.
Our news round-up at the end of last year focused on drug discovery investment, so it is positive to see that this has also started strong in 2025, with a number of new acquisitions, research partnership agreements and financings to kick off the new year.
You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify, Google Play and Apple Podcasts.
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled “Where are the global breakthroughs, opportunities and developments in cancer research?”, which covers three articles written for DDW Volume 24 – Issue 2, Spring 2023 of DDW. They are called: “Global breakthroughs in cancer drug discovery”, “The Achilles’ heel of cancer”, and “Immunotherapy is here to stay”.
At the time of writing in the first article, AstraZeneca UK had appointed David Brocklehurst as Head of Oncology in the UK. I spoke with him about how AstraZeneca is innovating to displace chemotherapy and research areas of significance.
In the second article, Genoscience Pharma’s Philippe Halfon and Eric Raymond share their expertise on targeting the recycling of unsustainable production of palmitoylated cancer-associated proteins.
In the third article, I spoke with Frédéric Triebel, the French immunologist/oncologist who is best known for his 1990 discovery of the LAG-3 immune control mechanism. Triebel shares insights from his career, expands on his experience with the company he founded, Immutep, and comments on the future of immuno-oncology.
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled “Innovative approaches to improving drug discovery”, which covers three articles written for DDW Volume 24 – Issue 2, Spring 2023 of DDW. They are called: Post-Covid cognitive impairment: a new target for drug development?, Sitting Down With Dr Harren Jhoti, Astex Pharmaceuticals, and The Nobel Prize winning power of click chemistry.
In the first article, Dr Paula Moran, Dr Kiri Granger, Dr J Mark Treherne, and Dr Jenny Barnett explore the effects of long Covid symptoms and what the opportunities are for drug developers working to treat post-Covid cognitive impairment.
In the second article, Dr Harren Jhoti speaks to Diana Spencer after receiving his OBE, about his career, the UK life sciences sector, fragment-based drug discovery and what the future holds for the industry.
In the third article, José Mejía Oneto, PhD, Founder and CEO at Shasqi, discusses the potential of chemistry to engineer biology to improve the effectiveness of human therapeutics and revolutionise the treatment of disease.
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The latest episode of the DDW Highlights podcast is now available to listen to and watch below. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates.
As we approach the end of 2024, it’s great to see that investment in drug discovery is still going strong, with an impressive $300 million raised by AI-focused company SandboxAQ and another significant financing by Ottimo Pharma.
You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify, Google Play and Apple Podcasts.
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The latest episode of the DDW Highlights podcast is now available. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates.
It’s been a big week for cell and gene therapies (CGTs) as the first in vivo BCMA CAR-T candidate reaches the clinic and a new discovery could lead to a gene therapy that reverses a significant cause of stillbirth and premature delivery.
You can listen here, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify, Google Play and Apple Podcasts.
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This episode of the DDW narrated podcast series is titled “New ways to treat cancer”, which covers three articles written for DDW Volume 24 – Issue 2, Spring 2023 of DDW. They are called: “3D Genomics and targeted cancer therapies”, “Democratising proteomics for cancer and beyond”, and Meet the Researcher: John Maher”
In the first article, Anthony Schmitt, PhD, Senior Vice President, Science at Arima Genomics, discusses the applications of 3D genomics in cancer research.
In the second article, DDW Editor Reece Armstrong speaks to Nautilus Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Parag Mallick, about the company’s recent collaboration which aims to uncover the proteins that could be behind a rare and fatal childhood cancer.
In the third article, John Maher, Leucid Bio, told me about his work and offers valuable advice to others in this field.
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The latest episode of the DDW Highlights podcast is now available to listen to. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates.
This week’s leading news stories all shine a light on innovation within drug discovery, including a potential ‘best-in-industry’ weight loss drug, a gold-based compound that shrinks tumours by 82%, and a second-generation CAR-T therapy.
You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify, Google Play and Apple Podcasts.
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This episode of the DDW narrated podcast series is titled “The far-reaching impact of drug discovery technology”, which covers three articles written for Volume 24 – Issue 2, Spring 2023 of DDW. They are called: “Accelerating time to market through digitalisation”, “Why digital biomarkers will power tomorrow’s Alzheimer’s therapies”, and “The path to improved safety of gene-based products”.
In the first article, Sascha Fischer Business Development Manager for Automation at Genedata looks at three critical digitalisation components that enable end-to-end lab automation, improve the return on investment (ROI) on instrumentation investments and streamline time-to-market.
In the second article, Rivka Kreitman, CIO of NeuraLight explores the landscape of therapies for Alzheimer’s and explains why digital biomarkers are key to combatting the disease.
In the third article, Kerstin Pohl, Senior Global Marketing Manager, Gene Therapy & Nucleic Acid at SCIEX, looks at the application of liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry for analysing host cell proteins.
- Visa fler
