Posts tagged ‘drug discovery’

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to optimize for ligand affinity. Of course, this is a central theme of all drug discovery projects. At...

Innovation is suddenly the word on everybody’s lips. Pfizer launched “Centers for Therapeutic Innovation”, Johnson and Johnson followed with their...

Connecting academic scientists to the global life science ecosystem Like everyone else, academic researchers are finding that funding sources are...

Over the course of this series so far we’ve looked at the role of the microbiome in two of the three major therapeutic areas targeted by drug...

Outsourcing has proven to reduce costs while dramatically improving productivity of the drug discovery process. Primary benefits to outsourcing...

Having introduced the age of the microbiome in drug discovery and the microbiome in metabolic disease we now turn to the influence of the...

With the rise of next-generation sequencing and the increase of big data, scientists have gained a deeper understanding of various diseases. So it...

How difficult can antibiotic drug discovery be? Some of those struggling with their drug discovery projects in other areas might find themselves...

We previously discussed some of the failures in drug discovery for several chronic diseases. Now, we explore the partnerships that have been...

It’s a long, hard road that begins with the identification of a promising drug candidate and ends with its introduction to the marketplace. A drug...