Pharmaceutical

DDW Editor Reece Armstrong looks ahead to ELRIG Drug Discovery 2022 and why he and the team are excited to attend. It’s no secret that over the past couple of years, tradeshows within the life sciences sector, and indeed in general across the globe, have taken a massive hit. The Covid-19 pandemic all but put […]

Technology company PeakData has raised €12.1 million in Series A funding to support its artificial intelligence (AI) platform.  Launched in 2018, PeakData enables pharmaceutical companies to uncover the whole therapeutic area by mapping the healthcare professionals (HCPs) most relevant to their target market. It’s hoped that this enables patients to benefit from new medicines, faster. […]

DDW’s Reece Armstrong speaks to Scott Gray, President & CEO of Clincierge about its unique approach to improving the clinical trial experience for patients.   For patients participating in a clinical trial, the experience can be one of considerable hardship, both from a perspective on their health and the impact on their everyday lives. Logistically demanding […]

Absolute Antibody has expanded it Prometheus antibody humanisation service to deliver humanised antibodies from a wider range of species than it had previously had.   The company’s Prometheus antibody humanisation service now offers humanisation from -murine origin species, including rabbit antibodies and single-domain camelid nanobodies.  Humanisation is a critical step in the development pathway of all […]

The theme for International Women’s Day 2022 is ‘Break the Bias’, in which society is encouraged to celebrate women’s achievements, in turn raising awareness against bias and inspiring positive action for equality. Though the initiative is interdisciplinary, the drug discovery, life science and pharmaceutical world boasts many achievements of this nature. DDW’s Megan Thomas has […]

The MDI Biological Laboratory (MDIBL) has appointed James Strickland as Director of MDI Bioscience, a new initiative focused on using non-mammalian models in early drug discovery and development.   Background  Strickland brings experience in pharmaceutical development to his new position, in which he will leverage the MDI Biological Laboratory’s 124-year history of using non-mammalian animal […]

A Phase I clinical trial of the world’s first multivariant Covid-19 vaccine has been launched by US pharmaceutical company Gritstone in collaboration with The University of Manchester UK and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.  Initially involving participants aged 60+, its creators say the drug, GRT-R910, can boost the immune response of first-generation Covid-19 vaccines to […]

By Naheed Kurji, Co-founder and Executive of the Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AAIH), CEO of Cyclica; and Andreas Windemuth, Ph.D, Chief Science Officer of Cyclica Over the past decade, a new industry has arisen that seeks to apply artificial intelligence (AI), or more aptly machine learning (ML) technologies, to healthcare. This surge was […]

BlueRock Therapeutics, FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics and Opsis Therapeutics have entered a strategic research joint venture focused on developing cell therapies for patients with ocular diseases. The companies will combine their collective expertise to discover and develop off-the-shelf iPS cell therapies for ocular diseases. Under this agreement, BlueRock Therapeutics will have the option to exclusively license […]

The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson has submitted a Marketing Authorisation Application (MAA) to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) seeking approval of cilta-cel, an investigational B cell maturation antigen (BCMA)-directed chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapy, for the treatment of patients with relapsed and/or refractory multiple myeloma. The application is supported by […]

By Lu Rahman In his 2021 Budget, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, announced a range of measures designed to benefit UK science, business and technology. These included tax breaks for firms to designed to ‘unlock’ £20bn worth of business investment; incentives for companies to take on apprentices; allowing firms to deduct investment outlay […]

Today’s episode is titled The potential of metabolomics & COVID-19 Vaccine Development, and covers 2 articles taken from the most recent Fall issue of DDW. These articles are titled: Why metabolomics has the potential to transform diagnosis and treatment. & COVID-19 Vaccine Development: dethroning evil King Coronavirus These articles were firstly based on an interview with […]

Beckley Psytech, a company dedicated to addressing neurological and psychiatric disorders through psychedelic medicine, has appointed Andy Page as its Chief Operating Officer. Page brings over 25 years’ experience working within global pharmaceutical and medtech organisations in strategic and operation roles. He started his career at SmithKline Beecham before joining Johnson & Johnson at Janssen […]

ERS Genomics and ZeClinics have announced a non-exclusive license agreement granting ZeClinics access to ERS Genomics’ CRISPR/Cas9 patent portfolio. ERS Genomics was formed to provide broad access to the foundational CRISPR/Cas9 intellectual property co-owned by Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier. ZeClinics is a contract research organisation using zebrafish to carry out services focused on analysing the safety, […]

Jane Theaker, Kinomica explains why she was so impressed with the preclinical datasets predicting for drug response that the company could produce, she decided to join as CEO. Kinomica is a spin out offering phosphoproteomic analyses to the pharmaceutical industry. Theaker has R&D expertise in novel diagnostic technologies. Her experience includes genomics with AstraZeneca and […]

This article is the first in a two-part series based on The Pistoia Alliance report. Written in retrospect from the world as it is in 2030, it looks at how healthcare has changed in the intervening decade, covering the socio-economic and political evolutions that have happened, the subsequent effects on population health and the innovative […]