Author Archives: Megan Thomas

#Diversity #Gender equality #International Women's Day #Life sciences #Pharmaceutical industry

Balancing the lack of gender equality at top leadership level 

Women in Life Science Denmark (WiLD), an inspiring and science-centric not-for-profit network for women in senior positions across industry and academia, launched in January 2023 to strengthen value creation in the Danish Life Sciences industry, while promoting talent, diversity and inclusiveness. DDW’s Megan Thomas caught up with WiLD to learn… Read More

#Business & Investment #Exclusive Content

Influenza
#Acute inflammatory conditions #Biopharmaceuticals #Human trials #Immunomodulators #Infectious diseases #Influenza

New results for severe influenza and inflammatory conditions 

Poolbeg Pharma, an infectious disease-focused biopharmaceutical company, has announced data from the bacterial lipopolysaccharide (‘LPS’) human challenge trial for POLB 001, a viral strain agnostic, small molecule immunomodulator being developed to address the unmet medical need arising from severe influenza and other acute inflammatory conditions.   POLB 001… Read More

#News

#Cancer research #Cancer treatment #CAR-T #Cell therapy #Drug discovery #Epigenetics #Immunotherapy #Oncology

New episode of the DDW Highlights podcast available

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.  As well as providing extensive coverage of the … Read More

#News

#DDW Highlights podcast

DDW Highlights: 6 March 2023

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.  As well as providing extensive coverage of the … Read More

#Podcasts

#Anxiety disorder #Biotherapeutics #Neuroscience #Postpartum depression

Potential treatment for anxiety and postpartum depression 

PureTech Health, a clinical-stage biotherapeutics company, will advance therapeutic candidate LYT-300 (oral allopregnanolone) for the potential treatment of anxiety disorders and postpartum depression (PPD).    A social anxiety clinical trial in healthy volunteers is expected to begin in the first half of 2023, with results anticipated by the… Read More

#News

#Antivirals #Drug development #Drug discovery #Henipavirus #Investment

Millions invested in antiviral medicines for future pandemics 

The partners in the Pandemic Antiviral Discovery (PAD) initiative have announced grants totalling more than $26 million for 14 research projects aimed at facilitating early-stage development of drugs to treat henipavirus infection and disease in humans.  These grants mark the majority of the first investments to come… Read More

#News

#Automation #CRISPR screening #Genomics #Imaging #Screening #SLAS2023

Image-based screening of pooled genetic libraries

Avtar Singh is a Senior Scientist in the Cell and Tissue Genomics Department at Genentech, where he develops new approaches for image-based screening and high-throughput biological discovery. DDW's Megan Thomas spoke with Singh about SLAS2023, where he presented Image-based screening of pooled genetic libraries. MT: Why is SLAS2023 a prime… Read More

#Exclusive Content #Opinion

#DDW Highlights podcast

DDW Highlights: 27 February 2023

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 highlights this week focus on research into vaccines, with… Read More

#Podcasts

#Covid-19 #Drug development #Drug discovery #HIV #Immunity #Immunology / Virology & Vaccines #Vaccines

New episode of the DDW Highlights podcast

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 highlights this week focus on research into vaccines, with… Read More

#News

#AI / data analytics / healthtech / informatics #Data science #Lab automation #Life science #Machine learning #Proteins #Proteomics #SLAS2023 #Therapeutics

Don’t miss the DDW Events podcast series for SLAS2023

Today marks the start of SLAS2023 in San Diego. Over the last week, DDW’s Megan Thomas has narrated five articles from the SLAS2023 supplement as part of the DDW Events podcast series. Episodes include: A Welcome to SLAS 2023 Acquiring deeper insights and acceleration with AI Connecting… Read More

#News

#AI / data analytics / healthtech / informatics #Data science #Life science #SLAS2023

Listen to the final episode of the DDW Events SLAS2023 series

Ahead of this year’s SLAS2023 conference in San Diego (which takes place 25 February – 1 March) DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates articles from the DDW SLAS2023 supplement as part of the DDW Events podcast series. This is the final episode and the fifth in the series for the… Read More

#News

#Biomedicine #Cloud computing #High throughput screening #Lab automation #Life sciences #Machine learning #Proteins #Proteomics #SLAS2023 #Therapeutics

Podcast: ML and lab automation are changing protein therapeutics

Ahead of this year’s SLAS2023 conference in San Diego (which takes place 25 February – 1 March) DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates articles from the DDW SLAS2023 supplement as part of the DDW Events podcast series. This is episode four, How machine learning and lab automation are changing the… Read More

#News

#AI / data analytics / healthtech / informatics #Bioengineering #Biology #Lab automation #SLAS2023

Listen now: Connecting lab automation to decision-making

Ahead of this year’s SLAS2023 conference in San Diego (which takes place 25 February – 1 March) DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates articles from the DDW SLAS2023 supplement as part of the DDW Events podcast series. This is episode three, Connecting lab automation to decision-making. In this episode, we… Read More

#News

#DDW Events podcast #SLAS2023

DDW Events podcast: Connecting lab automation to decision-making

Ahead of this year’s SLAS2023 conference in San Diego (which takes place 25 February – 1 March) DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates articles from the DDW SLAS2023 supplement as part of the DDW Events podcast series. This is episode three, Connecting lab automation to decision-making. In this episode, we… Read More

#Podcasts