Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 25, 2023

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) aims to launch a pilot genetic biobank that will gather patient data to associate drug-related adverse events to their genetic makeup. The Yellow Card biobank will launch as a joint venture with the UK-government funded entity Genomics England on June 1.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

Ben Hargreaves finds that the vast amount of genetic data that exists today could help provide a faster, more targeted way of developing new drug candidates. The logical extension to this kind of approach is treating individual patients, with their individual genetic makeup.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

We are already seeing an increase in projects exploring population genomics in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, with initiatives including the GenomeAsia100K Project and the Genome Aggregation Database focusing on capturing genetic data of non-European individuals.

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