Drug innovation

Collaborative working between the NHS and industry could reduce variations in uptake of innovative treatments across the UK, a joint report from NHS Confederation and ABPI argues.   Analysis from the report has shown a significant variation in access to innovative medicines for patients across the UK and showed that uptake of new treatments in these […]

CatSci, a partner for medicines development, has secured £4.5 million of investment to expedite the development and launch of what it calls its life-changing therapeutics.  The company develops economically and environmentally sustainable drug manufacturing processes that enable its global pharmaceutical customers to create affordable small molecule therapeutics to address critical public health challenges, including antimicrobial […]

As the global Covid-19 pandemic enters its third year, the life sciences innovation system is setting new records in the level of investment, activity, and scientific progress, according to the IQVIA Institute. In its report, Global Trends in R&D: Overview through 2021, the IQVIA assesses the trends in new drug approvals and launches, overall pipeline […]

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. DDW Editor in Chief Lu Rahman comments.  There is huge excitement within the DDW team regarding the SLAS2022 International Conference and Exhibition in Boston on 5-9 February. With Omicron throwing a spanner in the works at the […]

BaseClear has appointed Alex Van Belkum as Chief Scientific Officer. He is a molecular microbiologist with extensive experience in molecular- and culture-based diagnostics, antimicrobial resistance testing and clinical microbiology. He will lead BaseClear’s science and innovation arm together with Innovation Manager Walter Pirovano and a team of PhD-level Product Managers.   Official comment  “We are extremely pleased to announce that Alex […]

University technology and innovation is driving the UK’s status in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, according to GovGrant’s University Spinouts Report 2021.  The report  According to the new report, the pharmaceuticals and biotechnology sector dominates the top ten spinout companies of the last decade, ranked by valuation. Pharma and biotech companies within the top ten have a combined value […]

Novasep, a supplier of services and technologies for the life sciences industry, and McSAF, a French biotech specialised in bioconjugation tools to design bio drugs for health and diagnostics, have collaborated for the preclinical production of ADCITMER, a next-generation Antibody-Drug Conjugate (ADC) to treat neuroendocrine cancers.   What has been done?  Novasep performed a proof-of-concept study of McSAF’s bioconjugation technology through the […]

Given the unexpected couple of years we have had as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the drug discovery sector is no doubt looking forward to an in-person event at last. ELRIG UK’s Drug Discovery 2021 will take place at the ACC, Liverpool, UK on 19-20 October.  DDW has teamed up with ELRIG UK to produce an exclusive supplement containing insight from experts across the […]

Sciex has launched a capillary electrophoresis solution, the BioPhase 8800 system. The multi-capillary system for CE-SDS processes eight samples simultaneously, retaining sample integrity and delivering consistent results.  The development of biopharmaceutical therapies requires the ability to measure and monitor critical quality attributes in short timelines. The BioPhase 8800 system has been designed to enables high throughput, sensitive CE-SDS and […]

Paradigm4 has launched Reveal: Multi-Omics, an app which allows researchers to undertake advanced, cross-study analyses and enable quick searches for genes and proteins across integrated public reference and proprietary datasets. It is built on top of Paradigm4’s SciDB analytics platform, designed for rapid data slicing that enables scientific data modelling, storage, and population-scale computation. The […]