The Drug Discovery World Podcast

The latest episode of the DDW Highlights podcast is now available to listen to below. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates.

This week, DDW has opened registrations for its webinar ‘The latest advancements driving neuroscience drug discovery research’, so our news highlights focus on developments in neuroscience, including a novel drug that has been shown to reduce neuronal death, and a potential disease-modifying treatment for dementia.

You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify, Google Play and Apple Podcasts.

The latest episode of the DDW Highlights podcast is now available to listen to below. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates.

This week has seen a number of significant discoveries by researchers in academic institutions, in some cases in partnership with industry, emphasising the important role universities play in early-stage drug discovery. Perhaps most importantly, a new antibiotic was found that targets a Gram-negative pathogen, mRNA was used as an effective therapy for a rare liver disease, and a common immune cell was found to attack cancer.

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In the In Conversation With series, a part of the free DDW podcast, DDW speaks with members of the drug discovery industry about their work and how it helps turn science into business.

In this episode, Megan Thomas is in conversation with Quin Wills, Co-founder and CSO of Ochre Bio, a company whose scientists are working in collaboration with AI to unlock the potential of complex human liver data. Ochre's lab in Oxford takes different types of human cells from donor livers, which they combine to build components of the liver from scratch. These ‘bottom up’ models allow them to flexibly study the metabolic, cell death, inflammation, fibrosis, and neoplastic processes that occur throughout the liver disease trajectory. They are, in effect, trying to do the clinical trial before the clinical trial.

You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify, Google Play and Apple Podcasts.

The latest episode of the DDW Highlights podcast is now available to listen to below. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates.

In another busy week for drug discovery and development, we have seen the FDA approval of a monoclonal antibody for emergency use in Covid-19, the launch of trials into innovative new treatments for urea cycle disorders and alcohol use disorder, and a significant acquisition for Novo Nordisk, as well as the discovery of a new way to target dormant cancer cells.

You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify, Google Play and Apple Podcasts.

This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled “Revolutionary technology for drug discovery and development” which covers three written for Volume 23 – Issue 4, Fall 2022 of DDW.

They are called: mRNA technology may hold the future for a cytomegalovirus vaccine; Predictive diagnostics: closing the precision medicine gap; and FAIR Game: making data work harder in the race to market.

In the first article, Allison August, M.D., Vice President, Clinical Development, Infectious Diseases at Moderna examines the data on cytomegalovirus (CMV), why attempts at vaccines for CMV have so far proved elusive and the emerging options to address this unmet need.

In the second article, Jarret Glasscock, PhD, CEO of Cofactor Genomics explains how diagnostics are emerging as the key to ensuring the right patients get matched to the right therapy, at the right time.

In the third article, Dr Christof Gänzler, Product Marketing Biology at PerkinElmer Informatics, shares insight on making data work harder in the race to market.

You can also find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify, Google Play and Apple Podcasts.