Medicinal chemistry

The Commonwealth Government’s Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) has invested $9.75 million into establishing MedChem Australia, a new national medicinal chemistry initiative.   MedChem Australia will bring together three medical chemistry groups in Australia from the University of Sydney, Monash University and the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI). It will be headquartered […]

PharmEnable has closed a pre-series A investment round of $7.5 million to develop the next generation of small molecule drugs against disease areas of high clinical need. The funding round was led by MP Healthcare Venture Management (MPH), the venture arm of Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Group. There was also participation from existing investors including Cambridge […]

DDW is hosting an exclusive free event, Connected chemistry: How to choose the most promising drug candidates from your hit list. It will be supported by Torx Software. It will take place on March 8, 2023 3PM GMT. Register here for free. AI and machine learning (AI/ML) methods offer an alluring way to expedite the […]

DDW is hosting an exclusive free event, Connected chemistry: How to choose the most promising drug candidates from your hit list. It will be supported by Torx Software. It will take place on March 8, 2023 3PM GMT. Register here for free. AI and machine learning (AI/ML) methods offer an alluring way to expedite the […]

Charles River Laboratories and Pioneering Medicines have entered a multi-programme agreement that gives Pioneering Medicines access to artificial intelligence (AI) model Logica.  Through the agreement, Pioneering Medicines will apply Logica across a portfolio of targets with the aim of creating optimised small molecules that will lead to novel therapies for unmet medical needs.  “We are […]

DDW is hosting an exclusive free event, Connected chemistry: How to choose the most promising drug candidates from your hit list. It will be supported by Torx Software. It will take place on March 8, 2023 3PM GMT. Register here for free. AI and machine learning (AI/ML) methods offer an alluring way to expedite the […]

DDW is hosting an exclusive free event, Connected chemistry: How to choose the most promising drug candidates from your hit list. It will be supported by Torx Software. It will take place on March 8, 2023 3PM GMT. Register here for free. AI and machine learning (AI/ML) methods offer an alluring way to expedite the […]

Torx Software and CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, have revealed that they will collbaorate to connect CAS SciFinder users through the Torx platform to streamline workflows for discovery chemistry.   CAS SciFinder is designed to provide solutions to challenges encountered in scientific research and discovery, across multiple stages of research and development, including […]

DDW is hosting an exclusive free event, Connected chemistry: How to choose the most promising drug candidates from your hit list. It will be supported by Torx Software. It will take place on March 8, 2023 3PM GMT. Register here for free. AI and machine learning (AI/ML) methods offer an alluring way to expedite the […]

AI and machine learning (AI/ML) methods offer an alluring way to expedite the drug discovery process by delivering a large number of possible new candidates for any given therapeutic area. However, insight from medicinal chemists is still necessary to triage and prioritise the most promising molecules for synthesis, and progress these through the Design-Make-Test-Analyse (DMTA) […]

The latest free-to-listen DDW podcast episode is titled “Using biotechnology to maximise drug discovery output”. It covers two articles written for Volume 22, Issue 2 – Spring 2021 of the Drug Discovery World Magazine and has been narrated by DDW’s Megan Thomas.  These articles are titled: “The important integration of medicinal chemistry in Hit-to-Lead discovery” and “With so many technologies for genetically […]

The COVID-19 antiviral race: we’re all in this together By Uduak Grace Thomas In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, international scientists from academia and industry have pooled their expertise and resources to identify candidate compounds that inhibit the activity of the SARS-CoV-2 main protease, in order to develop a clinically effective antiviral. The aptly named […]

Guidelines & Recommendations For Analyzing and Interpreting GPCR Second Messenger Data Sponsored by CisBio The question of choosing which methods to use for analyte quantification (signal vs concentration determination, parameters, and format) continues to generate heated debates and divergent understanding. Today, there is still a communication gap between researchers depending on their field of expertise […]

Optibrium and the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM), are celebrating five years of an education support collaboration. As part of this specialist science and technology summer school initiative, Optibrium provides free access to StarDrop, Optibrium’s software for small molecule design, optimisation and data analysis. This encourages high school students to take their […]

30 June 2020 Image: Lucas Vasques PharmEnable, has closed a £1.8 million seed financing to support its transition into a drug development company. The Cambridge, UK-based drug discovery company uses advanced medicinal chemistry and AI-enabled approaches to design the next generation of highly complex and specific drug candidate molecules. It aims to develop new treatments […]

25 June 2020 Image: Chris Liverani CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society specialising in scientific information solutions, and the Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit organisation that works to lower barriers to innovation in life sciences R&D, have signed an agreement under which CAS will develop and host the Pistoia Alliance Chemical Safety Library. […]