Collaboration

News round-up by DDW’s Megan Thomas for 11-15 October   For this week’s drug discovery round up, DDW’s Megan Thomas has selected five stories that showcase how organisations and collaboration within the drug discovery industry can provide researchers and drug developers with the tools they need to move forward with life-saving treatments.   Therapeutics research partnership to access induced […]

Evotec has expanded its collaboration with Bristol Myers Squibb to include a new cell type.  The collaboration was initiated in December 2016 with the goal of identifying disease-modifying treatments for a broad range of neurodegenerative diseases. Currently approved drugs only offer short-term management of the patients’ symptoms and there is tremendous unmet medical need for […]

UPM Biomedicals has entered into an agreement with PerkinElmer to act as a distributor of the UPM GrowDex and GrowDase range of products. This new collaboration will offer researchers a complete solution for high throughput screening (HTS) of 3D cell cultures in early drug discovery, combining PerkinElmer’s cell imaging and automation solutions and knowledge with UPM’s animal-free 3D reagent […]

The latest free-to-listen DDW podcast episode is titled “Recipe for success: collaboration in drug discovery”. It covers three articles written for Volume 22, Issue 2 – Spring 2021 of the Drug Discovery World Magazine, narrated by DDW’s Megan Thomas.  These articles are titled: “Why collaboration matters and how to make it a success”; “Platform biotechnologies […]

This free-to-watch webinar, brought to you by Certara, reviews best practices for using technology to overcome challenges in order to accelerate discovery programs.  Drug discovery research requires understanding complex chemical, biological, logistical, and computational data from a variety of data sources. A key challenge for discovery scientists is efficiently accessing the most relevant data from internal and […]

 The AMR Action Fund, a public-private partnership supporting the development of new antibiotics to address rising antimicrobial resistance (AMR), has appointed William (Bill) Burns as Board Chair.   Burns has worked in the pharmaceutical and life sciences industry throughout his life, providing invaluable experience for his role as Board Chair today, when the need for novel […]

Researchers have discovered a potential advancement in the treatment of chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML), which they hope will one day offer an improved option for treating patients with this form of blood cancer. The study– published in Science Translational Medicine and led by the University of Glasgow in collaboration with LifeArc – has discovered a […]

Brooks Life Sciences Services and Products businesses will be rebranded under the creation of a new identity – Azenta Life Sciences. Azenta will bring together Brookes’ existing portfolio of life sciences products and services to deliver integrated enterprise-wide sample exploration and management solutions.  “We are excited to announce the creation of Azenta as it reinforces our commitment to helping customers reach […]

The European Laboratory Research & Innovation Group (ELRIG) UK will launch its equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) guiding principles at Drug Discovery 2021. The principles were developed with the support of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Science and Health (EDIS), a coalition of organisations working to improve EDI within the science and health research sectors, and the […]

The Pistoia Alliance has released new results from a survey of 260 attendees from life science companies across the globe, finding that almost half classify their understanding of quantum computing (QC) technology at the beginner level (48%) only. This is followed by intermediate (29%), advanced (13%), and expert at 9%. These results show that despite […]