Author Archives: Megan Thomas

#Clinical trial design #Clinical trials #Phase I trial #Phase II trial

New DDW Highlights vodcast: 15 July 2024

Every week, 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 DDW Highlights podcast. It is now also available in a concise vodcast format.   Clinical trial news has caught… Read More

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#Clinical trial design #Clinical trials #Phase I trial #Phase II trial

New DDW Highlights podcast: 15 July 2024

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 trial news has caught our attention this week. Despite the revelation… Read More

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#DDW Highlights podcast

DDW Highlights: 15 July 2024

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 trial news has caught our attention this week. Despite the revelation… Read More

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Events
#ASGCT #Blood donation #Drug delivery #Drug discovery #Events #ISCT #Pharma Sustainability Integrates #Synthetic & Engineering Biology British-Swiss Summit

Event highlights in 2024 so far  

There have been a number of key events in the drug discovery community’s diary in 2024 to date, from AACR 2024 and LSX Congress 2024 to SLAS 2024 in Boston and… Read More

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#Cancer research #Career #Chemical biology #Curve Therapeutics #Drug discovery #High throughput screening #Interview #Meet the Researcher #Next generation sequencing #Target identi

Meet the researcher: Ali Tavassoli

DDW’s Megan Thomas talks to Ali Tavassoli, Chief Scientific Officer of Curve Therapeutics and Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of Southampton, UK.  MT: Where do you work, and can you tell us what you’re working on at the moment?  AT: We spun Curve out of my academic… Read More

#Cancer Research #Exclusive Content

#Breast cancer #Cancer research #DNA mutations #Epigenetics #Gene therapy #Oncology

New podcast shining a spotlight on cancer research developments

This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled “How to utilise clinical trials in drug discovery” which covers two articles written for Volume 24 – Issue 1, Winter 2022/2023 of DDW. They are called: The ‘dark matter’ behind cancer and Could this ‘Goldilocks’… Read More

#Cancer Research #News

#Narrated podcasts

Shining a spotlight on cancer research developments

This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled “How to utilise clinical trials in drug discovery” which covers two articles written for Volume 24 – Issue 1, Winter 2022/2023 of DDW. They are called: The ‘dark matter’ behind cancer and … Read More

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#CRISPR #Gene editing #Gene therapy #Genetic engineering #Genetics / genomics

New DDW Highlights episode: 8 July 2024

The latest episode of the DDW Highlights podcast and vodcast is now available to listen to or 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.  The last few days have seen some interesting developments… Read More

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#DDW Highlights podcast

DDW Highlights: 8 July 2024

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.  The last few days have seen some interesting developments related to gene editing, including… Read More

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#Clinical trials #Neurodegenerative disorders #Neurology #Neuroscience

DDW Highlights podcast expands to include vodcast 

Every week, 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 DDW Highlights podcast. It is now also available in a concise vodcast format.   This week has seen… Read More

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RNA
#Circio Holding #circular RNAs #Gene therapy #Genetic diseases #In vivo #mRNA

How does circVec technology compare to conventional mRNA? 

Circio has announced updated in vivo data that demonstrates a substantial durability advantage of Circio’s circVec technology over conventional mRNA expression. In addition, Circio has undertaken sequence optimisation resulting in a new circVec 2.2 design.   “The circVec 2.1 design is performing very well in… Read More

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Gastrointestinal tract
#Cancer #Clinical trials #Drug development #ESMO #Gastrointestinal #Redx Pharma #Wnt inhibition

Redx Pharma reports on zamaporvint cancer treatment trials 

Redx Pharma has announced data from all Phase II clinical trial modules of zamaporvint (RXC004), a potent, selective, orally-active Porcupine inhibitor in development for Wnt-ligand dependent, hard-to-treat gastrointestinal (GI) cancers.   These data, presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology Gastrointestinal Cancers (ESMO GI) Congress, were from… Read More

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#Career #CRISPR #Drug discovery #Meet the Researcher #Milner Therapeutics Institute #University of Cambridge #Wet labs

Meet the researcher: Nicola McCarthy, Milner Therapeutics Institute

DDW’s Megan Thomas talks to Nicola McCarthy, Head of Research at the Milner Therapeutics Institute.  MT: Could you start by giving me your name, your job title and what you do?  NM: I’m Head of Research at the Milner Therapeutics Institute, which is part of the University of Cambridge, and… Read More

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