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Feb 26, 2019

Cell therapy is poised to play a pivotal role in the development of precision and personalised medicines that will transform healthcare for millions of patients worldwide.

Involving the direct use of whole cells or cellular material in patients, cell therapy is an umbrella term for many subdivisions of biological...


Feb 19, 2019

With more than 1,500 drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the market, the easiest disease targets are already covered.

Today’s scientists are challenged to find new compounds, acting alone or in combination, on intractable targets to treat multi-causal diseases including cancers, metabolic and...


Feb 12, 2019

This episode presents a review of the current approaches to data management and application within the drug development and research setting, highlighting major critical challenges and emerging solutions for organisations that are determined to harness big data and machine learning.

Data-driven companies that use...


Feb 5, 2019

Drug discovery focused on ion-channel proteins began generating great value for pharmaceutical R&D programmes more than 30 years ago, giving rise to medicines still important in the pharmacopeia for treating human disease.

Ion channels are the molecular targets of many kinds of therapeutics, from cardiovascular...