News round-up by DDW’s Megan Thomas for 5 – 9 July
We know that innovation is key in the drug discovery and development sector. DDW’s Megan Thomas rounds up her top five stories this week which highlight the industry’s on-going work to create breakthrough therapeutics for global wellbeing.
A new screening method that can test the effectiveness of therapeutic molecules designed to ‘glue’ proteins together in the body has been developed by researchers at the University of Birmingham and the University of Leicester. The research paves the way for drug developers to screen large numbers of potential new drug compounds to discover new treatments for diseases such as breast cancer and Parkinson’s disease.
Gesynta Pharma has announced that an IND (Investigational New Drug Application) has been submitted to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for its oral drug candidate GS-248 in patients with systemic sclerosis.
The new UK Life Sciences Vision, developed with businesses and experts in the field, outlines seven critical missions that government, industry, the NHS, academia and medical research charities will work together on at speed to solve – from cancer treatment to tackling dementia.
Sinopia Biosciences has been awarded a grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), as part of the National Institutes of Health, to further develop and validate their proprietary metabolomics-based high-throughput screening (HTS) platform with an initial focus on rare diseases.
Ilya Pharma has received approval from the Swedish Medical Product Agency and Swedish Ethical Review Authority to initiate a Phase II clinical study of its ILP100 gene therapy for the treatment of difficult diabetic wounds (EudraCT 2021-000563-69).
