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The Future of Pharma Data Management: Creating Unified Platforms for Innovation

Ask a European pharmaceutical executive where the companys data actually lives and the honest answer is usually in about forty places under a dozen owners described in half a dozen vocabularies Research holds assay and translational data Clinical holds trial and subject data

Spleen Cytokines Against Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Over one hundred years ago at the University of Toronto Frederick Banting Charles Best and James Collip extracted protein insulin from the pancreas that saved the lives of millions of diabetics since then It is possible that the proteins extracted from the spleen can also help people with inflammatory bowel disease IBD

Pre-Formulation Studies and Analytical Techniques in Pharmaceutical Formulation Development

Development of pharmaceutical formulations is a very important phase in the drug development process which lies between a drug molecule that is discovered and a dose form that can be commercially developed It is a process that involves designing optimizing and validating drug products to make sure that they are safe effective and able to be taken by patients Preformulation studies form a significa...

The Future of Oncology Clinical Trials: Adaptive, Biomarker-Led, and AI-Enabled

Oncology now absorbs close to a third of the industrys active development pipeline and a comparable share of its research budget It also carries the worst odds in medicine A molecule entering firstinhuman cancer studies has historically had a midsingledigit probability of reaching approval against roughly double that across other therapy areas For a European chief executive allocating capital acro...

Trustworthy AI in Drug Discovery: From Innovation to Regulatory Readiness

Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase in drug discovery After years of enthusiasm for predictive models generative chemistry and automated screening attention is shifting from what AI can generate to whether its outputs can be trusted

Unveiling the Revolutionary Potential: Exploring Blockchain Technology in Pharma

The pharmaceutical industry is renowned for its stringent regulations complex supply chains and crucial emphasis on data integrity In recent years the emergence of blockchain technology has sparked considerable interest

Techno Trends

Alume Biosciences Secures FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Bevonescein

Alume Biosciences has received Breakthrough Therapy Designation BTD from the US Food and Drug Administration FDA for bevonescein an investigational fluorescent drug being developed to support realtime nerve visualisation during head and neck surgery in adults Bevonescein is an intravenous fluorescent peptidedye conjugate that binds to nerve tissue

Projects

SK pharmteco Plans More Than US$200 Million Investment in Small Molecule and Peptide Manufacturing

SK pharmteco is planning a fiveyear investment of more than US million to expand and modernise its pharmaceutical development and manufacturing operations in the United States The programme will strengthen capabilities for small molecules and peptides while supporting a more

Research Insights

A drug repurposing screen reveals dopamine signaling as a candidate therapeutic pathway for PIGA-CDG

PIGACDG is a congenital disorder of glycosylation caused by pathogenic partial lossoffunction variants in the PIGA gene PIGA encodes an enzyme responsible for the catalytic transfer of Nacetylglucosamine

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Post-Translational Modifications in Drug Discovery: From Molecular Regulation to Clinical Impact

For decades the central dogma of molecular biology has anchored our understanding of cellular function DNA to RNA to protein But this linear view is incomplete A growing body of evidence shows that much of biologys