Combinatorial chemistry

Next Generation Flow Chemistry and Biology Platforms: The Impact on Small Molecule Drug Discovery By Dr J Mark Treherne, Dr David M Parry and Christopher N Selway Can the next generation of flow chemistry and biology platforms be fully integrated to transform the efficiency of small-molecule drug discovery for pharmaceutical industry? There have been many […]

In Vivo Cell Reprogramming: Current status and potential clinical applications By Dr Shili Wu, Jonathan Pang, Bobby Baravati, Jun Bao and Dr Yong Zhu In Vivo Cell Reprogramming, or IVR, is a new technology that can be used to develop cures for incurable diseases. Using a combination of protein, small molecule or RNA drugs, one […]

Overcoming Bottlenecks in Drug Discovery By Dr Trevor Perrior Developing a new drug is an expensive and time-consuming process. The best current estimate puts the cost of developing a single new drug at close to $1 billion. After a drug candidate has entered the clinical trial process it takes, on average, 5.1 years for it […]

Free Online Resources Enabling Crowd-Sourced Drug Discovery By Dr Antony J. Williams, Valery Tkachenko, Dr Chris Lipinski, Professor Alexander Tropsha and Dr Sean Ekins The availability of freely accessible online resources to enable and support drug discovery has blossomed in recent years. The PubChem platform is now accompanied by a myriad of other online databases […]

Maximising the impact of technologies on drug discovery through portfolio management By Charles S. Dormer, Dr Mark Beggs, Dr Lynn Brennan and Roanna London The opportunities to invest in new technologies in drug discovery are broad and extensive. Knowing where to place your investment and ensuring return on these investments is critical to ensure future […]

Overcoming the Limitations of Chemical Structure By Dr Andy Vinter, Dr Steve Gardner and Dr Sally Rose The pharmaceutical business has been profoundly hampered by a ubiquitous and unexpected obstacles; the way it draws its chemical compounds. Scientists, patent agents and business decision makers from R&D, safety, and in-licensing are locked into a world of […]

The Benefits of Biological Modelling By Gordon Webster The enormous challenge posed by the complexity of biological systems represents a potential intellectual impasse to researchers and threatens to stall future progress in basic biology and healthcare. In recent years, increasing reliance on correlative approaches to biology has failed to resolve this situation. The burgeoning volumes […]

Letting the Target Determine your Compound Acquisition Strategy By Dr John Harris With compound libraries likely to remain the cornerstone of hit and lead discovery for the foreseeable future, this paper seeks to summarise current and future approaches to optimal library design and compound acquisition, using examples and experimental evidence of the success, limitations and […]

Natural Product Pharmaceuticals – The third generation By Dr Melanie McCullagh Compounds derived from natural products have made a big impact on the pharmaceutical industry. Of the 1,010 NCEs approved between January 1981 and June 2006, 43 were unaltered natural products (NPs) and a further 232 (23%) were second generation NP derivatives (1). The second […]

By Dr Anil Vasudevan Since the original publications on the benefits of conducting organic reactions in a microwave by Gedye (1) and Majetich (2) in the mid-80s, the uptake of this technique was sluggish at best for the next 12-14 years. However, the past few years have witnessed an explosion in the number of publications […]