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DDW Deputy Editor Reece Armstrong recently attended the Invest in Toulouse Virtual Round Table to [...]
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At the end of last month, DDW’s Megan Thomas attended ELRIG’s Research & Innovation 2022: Innovations for Tomorrow’s Drug Discovery, at The King’s Centre in Oxford, UK. The four sessions addressed aspects of innovation across drug discovery and placed an emphasis on both the digital age and novel modalities: Omics technology innovations; The future of […]
DDW’s Megan Thomas spent March 1-2, 2022 at the fourth ‘CRISPR in Drug Discovery: From Targets to Therapeutics’, which took place at Babraham Research Campus in Cambridge, UK. Finding it insightful and eye-opening, she looks forward to the next event on ELRIG’s agenda, ‘Research & Innovation’ at The Kings Centre in Oxford on March 29-30. […]
DDW’s Megan Thomas attended a BioIVT event at Scale Space to see BioIVT’s new blood donor center, whilst enjoying life science networking opportunities afforded by One Nucleus. She comments on the facilities located on Imperial College London’s White City Campus. Having started my role at DDW during the height of the 2021 lockdowns, it is […]
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 […]
“The message was clear from industry leaders this year whether on social media or conferences: today’s clinical trials need decentralised solutions”, says Temitope Keyes, Executive Director Business Development at encapsia, commenting on the decentralised clinical trial (DCT) event horizon. Clinical trials are now more complex than ever, and sites and patients can (and will) be […]
2022’s World Cancer Day theme is “Close the Care Gap”1 and is focused on raising awareness of the cancer care equity gap that affects almost everyone, in high as well as low- and middle-income countries, and costs lives. DDW’s Megan Thomas comments on the crisis as well as initiatives that are working to close this gap. World Cancer Day is a […]
Dr David Walt, a professor at Harvard Medical School who runs labs at both Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, shares his thoughts on the drug discovery industry and what the pandemic has taught us about lab automation in the Winter issue of DDW Magazine’s accompanying exclusive DDW & SLAS2022 supplement . Dr […]
DDW’s Megan Thomas speaks to decision-makers from the drug discovery industry about their predictions on what 2022 holds for our sector. Around this time last year, the first Covid-19 vaccines were authorised for emergency use by organisations such as the FDA1, the EMA2, the MHRA3 and many more internationally. A year before that, Covid-19 […]
The Winter issue of the Drug Discovery World Magazine is accompanied by an exclusive DDW & SLAS2022 supplement ahead of SLAS2022 in Boston, US on 5-9 February. As we all look forward to the expertise at the event, Jill Hronek, Director of Marketing and Communications at SLAS, comments that collaboration has always been key for the organisation as well as the […]
This is the latest episode of the free DDW podcast, “From here to there: What lies ahead for drug discovery”. It covers two narrated articles written for Volume 22, Issue 3 – Summer 2021 of DDW and read aloud by Megan Thomas. The articles are called “The complexity of disease biology gives opportunities for drug […]