Here at Drug Discovery World (DDW) we've been publishing articles written by leading experts in the Drug Discovery, Pharmaceutical, and BioPharmaceutical industries for over 20 years. DDW has grown as a quarterly business review of drug discovery and development, and now we've created this podcast to allow you to listen to our articles on the go. In our journal and this podcast, we cover topics surrounding: drug discovery; drug development; business; chemistry; enabling technologies; informa ...
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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. The chosen news highlights this week all feature advances in drug development in oncology indications and reflect the breadth of therapeutic…
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How technology is impacting drug discovery
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled "How technology is impacting drug discovery", which covers two articles written for Volume 24 – Issue 1, Winter 2022/2023 of DDW. They are called: AI is critical to solving new complexities in drug discovery and The push towards lab automation in biopharma. In the first article, An…
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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. The news highlights this week all centre around significant US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory decisions, including new approv…
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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. GLP-1 receptor agonists have dominated the headlines this week, with data revealed on new potential beneficial effects of treatment with sem…
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Innovation drivers and opportunities for drug discovery
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled "Innovation drivers and opportunities for drug discovery", which covers three articles written Volume 24 – Issue 1, Winter 2022/2023 of DDW. They are called: Optimising AAV capsid purification through improved analytics How transcriptomics is driving drug discovery Scandinavia: Ins…
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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. There have been some interesting developments in neuroscience this week. Perhaps most note-worthy, shingles vaccines Shingrix has been shown…
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Where is the global innovation and the opportunity in CGTs?
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled “How to utilise clinical trials in drug discovery” which covers five articles written for Volume 24 – Issue 1, Winter 2022/2023 of DDW. They are called: The promise and growth of cell and gene therapies No sign of stopping: The rise of cell and gene therapy Expert view: What's next…
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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. The chosen news stories this week all feature therapies that could have significant impact on the future treatment of cancer, particularly h…
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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. Clinical trial news has caught our attention this week. Despite the revelation from Phesi that a third of clinical trials fail at Phase II, …
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Shining a spotlight on cancer research developments
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled “How to utilise clinical trials in drug discovery” which covers two articles written for Volume 24 – Issue 1, Winter 2022/2023 of DDW. They are called: The ‘dark matter’ behind cancer and Could this ‘Goldilocks’ drug be a non-toxic way to treat breast cancer? In the first article, …
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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. The last few days have seen some interesting developments related to gene editing, including the discovery of a new mechanism for genetic pr…
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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 some exciting advances in neuroscience drug discovery, including Phase II clinical trials for two potentially game-changi…
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How to utilise clinical trials in drug discovery
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled “How to utilise clinical trials in drug discovery” which covers three articles written for Volume 24 – Issue 1, Winter 2022/2023 of DDW. They are called: Medicinal cannabis: Why more clinical trials and better access is needed, What are the opportunities for decentralised clinical …
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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. It’s been another busy week in the world of cell therapy, with the first use of CAR-T therapy for stiff-person syndrome, a study debunking t…
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Why drug repurposing is so significant for drug discovery
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled “Why drug repurposing is so significant for drug discovery” which covers three written for Volume 24 – Issue 1, Winter 2022/2023 of DDW. They are called: AI use in repurposing drugs for Covid-19 and RRx-001: Jack of all trades, master of…many. In the first article, Imran Haque, VP …
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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. With a lead story on the restoration of congenital hearing loss following gene therapy, the news highlights selection this week focuses on c…
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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. With the 2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting concluding this week, the headline news has all focused on breakth…
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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. The selected news highlights this week report breakthrough findings from early phase research and development, mainly preclinical studies an…
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The future climate and landscape for drug discovery
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled “The future climate and landscape for drug discovery” which covers three written for Volume 24 – Issue 1, Winter 2022/2023 of DDW. They are called: Pharma’s important climate and What will the 2023 drug discovery landscape look like? In the first article, DDW Editor Reece Armstrong…
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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. From a weight loss drug that prevents heart attacks and a gene therapy that restores hearing, to a vaccine that can treat viruses that don’t…
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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 Tien Lee, CEO of Aardvark Therapeutics, a San Diego-based biotech company in Phase II studies of its drug, ARD-…
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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. A leading news story this week has been the announcement of positive Phase II results of a head and neck cancer trial, but there have been a…
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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. The ongoing innovation and development in the drug discovery sector relies on a number of moving parts, one of which is financial support an…
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Selective Translation Regulator Inhibitors: Depriving cancer of what it needs
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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 Steve Worland, CEO of eFFECTOR. eFFECTOR is a company targeting three distinct targets central to the eIF4F tra…
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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. The leading news story this week has been the launch of a new clinical trial in the UK for a melanoma personalised mRNA cancer vaccine, but …
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A look behind the scenes of the drug discovery industry
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled “A look behind the scenes of the drug discovery industry” which covers three written for Volume 23 – Issue 4, Fall 2022 of DDW. They are called: Going paperless – the move to electronic lab notebooks, New horizon for cancer innovation, and A personal touch: the role of bioprinting …
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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. The headline news this week all concerns clinical trials for new drugs that could have a significant impact on future patient treatment, inc…
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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. The cancer research news has been coming thick and fast from the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in San Diego …
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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-1…
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Flow cytometry for drug discovery research
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled “Flow cytometry for drug discovery research” which covers three written for Volume 23 – Issue 4, Fall 2022 of DDW. They are called: Flow cytometry technologies and cancer associated fibroblasts and Leveraging flow cytometry in drug discovery. In the first article, Dr Amber Miller, …
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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. Following the recent AD/PD 2024 conference, which took place on 5-9 March in Lisbon, Portugal, there have been a number of key announcements…
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Exploring the potential of a new class of drug candidates
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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 Ahmed Mousa, CEO of Vicore Pharma. Vicore Pharma is exploring the potential of a new class of drug candidates, …
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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. It was antibodies hitting the headlines this week, with the discovery of antibodies with potential against a new influenza target, the launc…
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What trends will speed up the journey from clinic to bedside?
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled: What trends will speed up the journey from clinic to bedside? It covers three articles written for Volume 23 – Issue 4, Fall 2022 of DDW. They are called: Sitting down with… PharmEnable, Is single-cell gene expression the next trend in next generation sequencing? and Preparing for…
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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 a breakthrough for advanced therapies, this week saw the FDA approve the first ever cell therapy for solid tumour cancers, but there were…
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Unlock the potential of complex human liver data
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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…
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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 our news highlights focus on skin conditions, with positive updates on hidradenitis suppurativa, systemic sclerosis, wound-healing…
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DDW Events SLAS2024: Solving the diagnostic odyssey with multi-omics
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For this year’s SLAS2024 conference in Boston (which takes place 3-7 February), DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates articles from the DDW SLAS2024 supplement as part of the DDW Events podcast series. This is episode five, Solving the diagnostic odyssey with multi-omics. Catherine Brownstein is an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School …
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DDW Events SLAS2024: The building blocks of AI success stories
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For this year’s SLAS2024 conference in Boston (which takes place 3-7 February), DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates articles from the DDW SLAS2024 supplement as part of the DDW Events podcast series. This is episode four, The building blocks of AI success stories. Dr Mike Tarselli, Chief Scientific & Knowledge Officer at TetraScience, was Scientific Direct…
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DDW Events SLAS2024: Connecting academia, industry and the public
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For this year’s SLAS2024 conference in Boston (which takes place 3-7 February), DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates articles from the DDW SLAS2024 supplement as part of the DDW Events podcast series. This is episode three, Connecting academia, industry and the public. Erin Welsh, PhD, is a disease ecologist and epidemiologist now working full-time as a sci…
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DDW Events SLAS2024: Where is the Ignite Theatre tech leading us?
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For this year’s SLAS2024 conference in Boston (which takes place 3-7 February), DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates articles from the DDW SLAS2024 supplement as part of the DDW Events podcast series. This is episode two, Where is the Ignite Theater tech leading us? At this year's SLAS event, DDW has curated a track taking place in the Ignite Theater, spons…
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For this year’s SLAS2024 conference in Boston (which takes place 3-7 February), DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates articles from the DDW SLAS2024 supplement as part of the DDW Events podcast series. This is episode one, called, “A welcome to SLAS 2024”, which includes two comment pieces. Thomas wrote the first one, “The journey from lab to patient”, which…
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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 the same week that it was revealed that breast cancer was the most studied disease area in 2023 for the third year running, there were a …
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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 Dr Lynn Kirkpatrick, CEO of Ensysce Biosciences. As we all know, the opioid epidemic is one of the biggest issu…
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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. With seasonal illnesses running amok in the western hemisphere at the moment, it is perhaps not surprising that this week’s news highlights …
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Why is Europe a drug discovery epicentre?
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled: Why is Europe a drug discovery epicentre? It covers three articles written for Volume 23 – Issue 4, Fall 2022 of DDW. They are called: European drug discovery and development success stories, Basel: A centre for ground-breaking oncology, and On the European CGT landscape, zebras a…
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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, …
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Revolutionary technology for drug discovery and development
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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 FA…
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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. The start of 2024 has seen quite a bit of regulatory activity, with the UK MHRA’s launch of a new procedure for assessing drugs, along with …
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Developing novel targeted radiopharmaceuticals for cancer treatment
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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 Manfred Ruediger, CEO of Ariceum Therapeutics. Ariceum Therapeutics is focused on developing novel targeted rad…
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