Pharmaceutical

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 […]

Global mammalian transient protein market revenues are projected to surpass US$ 540 million in 2020, according to a new study by Future Market Insights. The report also states that, innovations in automation and recombinant proteins will support market developments, however, prohibitive costs and complexity to maintain media purity remain challenges. Key takeaways on mammalian transient […]

Seppic’s Sepivac SWETM vaccine adjuvant for human use can contribute to the development of vaccine solutions to fight seasonal and pandemic influenza, as well as COVID-19. Together with various international partners, Seppic is participating in the global research effort to develop a vaccine solution against COVID-19. These programs are in the pre-clinical phase and some […]

The Jefferies Healthcare Temperature Check report is now in its third edition and published to coincide with the 11th annual Global Healthcare Conference which was held virtually. Over 500 responses from senior leaders in the sector responded for this year’s report, giving views on both the current state of the market and predictions for 2021. […]

Mike Rea is CEO of IDEA Pharma. Over the last 20 years he has worked on a range of successful new drug launches. He recently turned his hand to writing with the publication of his book Pharmaceutical Positioning. Lu Rahman found out more about this topic and why drug developers should be thinking about it […]