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Cloud robotics labs are accelerating drug discovery and development

Pharmaceutical Technology

Drug discovery and development is an incredibly expensive and time-consuming process, taking between 12 and 18 years, and costing on average between $2 billion and $3 billion. Robots can improve drug discovery and development. Lab-specific industrial co-bots can carry out both complex and repetitive tasks such as liquid handling.

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Regulator and Funder? FDA’s Orphan Products Grants Program awards significant funding to help move promising treatments through clinical development

FDA Law Blog

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plays a pivotal role in fostering the development of treatments for rare diseases through its Orphan Products Grants Program. Each year, FDA selects a limited number of clinical trials to fund to help sponsors pursue development of medical products for rare diseases and advance their field.

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Chinook and Ionis partner to develop ASO therapy for kidney disease

Pharmaceutical Technology

Chinook Therapeutics and Ionis Pharmaceuticals have entered a partnership to develop an antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) therapy to treat a rare, severe chronic kidney disease. The collaboration aims to discover, develop and commercialise an ASO therapy.

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Ablaze Pharmaceuticals to develop drug candidate for liver cancer

Pharmaceutical Technology

Ablaze Pharmaceuticals is set to develop a new GPC3-targeted peptide drug candidate for the treatment of liver cancer in China. The agreement allows Ablaze to clinically develop and commercialise the drug in Greater China. The company is licensing the first-in-class drug candidate under an existing deal with RayzeBio.

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Researchers develop CRISPR-based drug candidate for microbiome targeting

Pharmaceutical Technology

The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) has announced that an international scientific team has developed a CRISPR-based drug candidate that targets E coli directly and leaves the microbiome intact. The division of infectious diseases at Weill Cornell Medicine carried out the work in collaboration with JAFRAL and JMI Laboratories.

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Cell and gene therapies: why advanced medicines call for specialised logistics

Pharmaceutical Technology

But scientists have struggled to find effective treatments for many of these diseases since the dawn of modern medicine. Although a high number of cell and gene therapies are in early-stage development, a new wave of approvals could be on its way. Securing the supply chain. The industry is moving at an unprecedented speed.

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BioMed X and Sanofi partner to leverage AI for drug development

Pharmaceutical Technology

BioMed X has entered a research partnership with Sanofi to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) for drug development. The partnership intends to address a 90% failure rate of new therapy candidates in clinical development, which is a key bottleneck of the pharmaceutical industry.