A recap of the Microbiome & Probiotics Series: Europe
Posted 23rd August 2019 by Jane Williams
The Microbiome & Probiotics Series: Europe is one of the highlights of our calendar year. Kristin Neumann, author & founder of MyMicrobiome was one of our speakers on the cosmeceuticals track and was kind enough to write the following recap of the event, for people who weren’t able to attend this year. You can read the original article here.
The benefits of network-driven drug discovery
Posted 19th August 2019 by Jane Williams
e-Therapeutics, an Oxford-based company, is using its network-driven drug discovery (NDD) technology to embrace the inherent complexity of biology, providing a novel and productive method for the discovery of new medicines.
Jonny Wray is the head of Discovery Informatics at e-Therapeutics. Trained as a computational neuroscientist, he is responsible for building the NDD technology. We spoke to him ahead of his presentation at the Global Pharma R&D Informatics & AI Congress.
Controlling the fate of cancer cells with SF3B1 modulators
Posted 16th August 2019 by Jane Williams
Andrew Cook has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for over 20 years. Throughout his career, he has endeavoured to do things differently, a little out of the ordinary, leading him to his work at H3 Biomedicine on splice modulators. “Part of the reason it attracted me” he says, “is it’s so different. It’s a natural product-based drug discovery effort, and I had never done that before”.
Presentation slides from the 6th Microbiome R&D & Business Collaboration Forum
Posted 9th August 2019 by Jane Williams
Following the Microbiome R&D & Business Collaboration Forum, we have made the following presentation slides available from Finn Terge Hegge, Angela Sessitsch, Evelina Munukka and Jonathan de Jonge.
Going back to biology and the hype of AI in pharma
Posted 2nd August 2019 by Jane Williams
With a background in pharmacology, toxicology, molecular cell biology and genetics, Rangaprasad Sarangarajan joined BERG Health in 2010 as head of R&D.
In the initial years of the company, he aided in the conception, design, and implementation of the paradigm of looking at human biology, use of technology to generate molecular signatures, and the use of artificial intelligence-based analytics for understanding the complexity of biology, identifying of targets, and developing of drugs, and its utility in clinical development.
How CRISPR will guide the way to better cancer therapies
Posted 26th July 2019 by Jane Williams
This article was originally published on Open Targets and is republished with kind permission.
For many cancers we don’t have an effective treatment option, and worse still, a lot of the therapies that we use are just not good enough. We need better cancer therapies, and we need them now.
The reason we need new therapies is actually the reason why I got into cancer research. It goes back to when I was only 17 when my Mam was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). She went through her treatment, chemotherapy, with another 12 patients, and unfortunately she was the only one who survived.
Increasing plant protein digestion in an in vitro model
Posted 19th July 2019 by Jane Williams
Population increases and patterns of consumption will put pressure on animal protein supply and price over the coming decades. Plant proteins are a viable alternative, but have a lower digestibility then animal proteins.
The Liquid Biopsy Workflow
Posted 17th July 2019 by Jane Williams
Anders Stahlberg works both in the academic setting as Associate Professor at the University of Gothenburg and in the clinical setting at Clinical Genetics & Genomics, Sahlgrenska University Hospital. Together with his colleagues, this means all aspects of circulating cell-free tumour DNA are covered; from basic science and development, understanding why and how liquid biopsies should be undertaken, to clinically focused questions that the patient will hopefully benefit from.
Ahead of the Liquid Biopsies Congress later this year, we spoke to him about his work.
