Opinion

Following the launch of Protas, an organisation which was launched on January 24, 2022, DDW Editorial Assistant Megan Thomas interviews Protas Chief Executive, Professor Sir Martin Landray, an epidemiologist and physician who has over 20 years’ experience of leading large, randomised clinical trials and has most recently been leading the landmark RECOVERY clinical trial into […]

Dr Anton Yuryev, Professional Services Director at  Elsevier explores how a project utilising artificial intelligence is helping discover drugs for a rare type of cancer.  Artificial Intelligence (AI) has considerable potential in the life sciences and healthcare sectors, where it is increasingly contributing to R&D breakthroughs. With its capacity to reduce the time spent processing data, improve […]

Hettie Stroebel, Founder and CEO of Launch Excellence looks at how target product profiles can be used by life sciences companies as a strategy for more effective product development.    The global effort to develop and distribute a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in months is a triumph for the pharmaceutical industry. It is also unprecedented. Never in the […]

James Tyrrell, Chair, Global Health, APCO Worldwide, assesses the pharmaceutical industry’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its ramifications on the sector.     With no quick end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, life sciences companies are increasingly being challenged to navigate this complex geopolitical crisis. Pharma and medtech companies’ products are not bound […]

Dr. Tom Knapman, Director of Strategic Brand at SCIEX, explains how bioconvergent advances will help to drive key health trends in the coming year. As we move into 2022, we will see more and more advances in bioconvergence – biological, physical, and computing technologies inspired by nature. We expect these top five trends to exemplify […]

The theme for International Women’s Day 2022 is ‘Break the Bias’, in which society is encouraged to celebrate women’s achievements, in turn raising awareness against bias and inspiring positive action for equality. Though the initiative is interdisciplinary, the drug discovery, life science and pharmaceutical world boasts many achievements of this nature. DDW’s Megan Thomas has […]

More than half of all scientific research is irreproducible, and more than 80% of scientific research data is being lost within 20 years. In the biomedical field alone, irreproducible research costs the industry £28 billion (US$38 billion) every year. Megan Thomas talks to Founder of Labstep Jake Schofield, about this issue.  MT: Huge amounts of scientific data […]

The advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs) sector holds great promise. However, multidisciplinary strategies that begin early in the development process should be adopted, says Christian Schneider, head of Biopharma Excellence and Chief Medical Officer at PharmaLex. He outlines five strategies for avoiding pitfalls and boosting the success rates of development programmes.  SARS-CoV-2 and the successful development […]

The cell and gene therapy (CGT) industry is booming, say Sergio Lainez Vicente (Senior Manager of Business Operations in the Cell & Gene Therapy / Large Molecule area) and Jaleel Shujath (Vice President of Marketing and Content), at Absorption Systems, a Pharmaron company. Around 1200 potential cell and gene therapies are currently being investigated, with […]