The Drug Discovery World Podcast

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 week of financial uncertainty for the industry, our round-up focuses on the power of partnership to accelerate drug discovery, from the prevention of respiratory infections, to mapping gene activity in inflammatory bowel disease. You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify, Google Play and Apple Podcasts. 

This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled “Innovation enabled by new drug discovery technologies”, which covers two articles written for DDW Volume 24 – Issue 3, Summer 2023. They are called: “Accelerating biotherapy and personalised medicine with long DNA” and “The microbiome in precision medicine”. In the first article, Matt Hill, Founder and CEO of Elegen writes about the importance of innovation in DNA synthesis to address critical bottlenecks in biotherapy development. In the second article, Katie Gillette, Senior Project Leader, Eliza French, Analyst, and Graham Friedman, Analyst, DeciBio, provide an industry overview of the role of the microbiome in precision medicine, and its interplay with research tools, diagnostics, and therapeutic development.

This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled “Innovation enabled by new drug discovery technologies”, which covers three articles written for DDW Volume 24 – Issue 3, Summer 2023. They are called: “Sitting down with… Neil Dhawan”, “Meet the researcher: Giusy Di Conza, iOnctura” and “From the Top: Adele Hannigan, Antibody Analytics”. In the first article, Reece Armstrong speaks to Neil Dhawan, the Co-founder and CEO of Totus Medicines about the company’s approach to drug discovery using fundamental technologies in chemistry, biology and artificial intelligence (AI). In the second article, Megan Thomas looked at a day in the life of Giusy Di Conza, Head of Research at iOnctura. In the third article, Megan Thomas shines a spotlight on Adele Hannigan, CBO for Antibody Analytics, which has since been rebranded as RoukenBio.

This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled “Innovation enabled by new drug discovery technologies”, which covers two articles written for DDW Volume 24 – Issue 3, Summer 2023. They are called: “Finding the North Star of therapeutic antibodies” and “Which diseases will benefit from therapeutic antibody development?” In the first article, Katie Abouzahr is the Vice President, Autoantibody Portfolio and Maternal Fetal Disease Area Leader at the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson. She speaks with Megan Thomas about the future for Janssen’s investigational medicine nipocalimab and antibody therapeutics at large. In the second article, DDW’s Megan Thomas looks at how different diseases will benefit from the success of therapeutic antibodies.

The latest episode of the DDW Highlights podcast is now available to listen. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates. Weight loss drugs have been making the news this week. As we come to the end of Women’s History Month, two of the covered studies focus on women’s health, specifically the role of weight loss drugs in treating endometriosis and why women have worse side effects from these therapeutics.  You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify, Google Play and Apple Podcasts. 

This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled “Innovation enabled by new drug discovery technologies”, which covers two articles written for DDW Volume 24 – Issue 3, Summer 2023. They are called: “CRISPR breakthroughs: New solutions for common diseases” and “Re-assessing the risks of drug-induced arrhythmias during drug discovery”.  In the first article, Rolf Turk, Senior Manager, Genomics Medicine at Integrated DNA Technologies, examines how CRISPR is being used to enhance cancer therapies. In the second article, Dr Mark Treherne, Dr Jack Scannell and Dr Richard Saumarez answer the question: Can potentially lethal arrhythmias induced by novel drugs be better predicted by using more relevant and sophisticated electrophysiological screening methods?

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 the DDW news round-up takes a look at developments in cancer research, including AZ’s acquisition of EsoBiotec, positive trial results for an allogeneic T-cell therapy, and a new drug target for glioblastoma. You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify, Google Play and Apple Podcasts. 

This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled “Critical tools that support drug discovery and development”, which covers two articles written for DDW Volume 24 – Issue 3, Summer 2023. They are called: “You think you need an ELN… but are you asking the right questions?” and “Big data: Charting a new path to drug discovery and development”. In the first article, Matt Clifford, Director of Research and Innovation Strategy at IDBS, discusses the questions that need to be asked if you’re considering an ELN.  In the second article, Tim Lowery, President of JSR Life Sciences, asks whether artificial intelligence can do for life sciences what it has done in other sectors and whether these tools can keep up with the complexities of human biology.

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 trials of all stages have dominated the DDW news section this week. All the stories represent a significant step forward for drug discovery, either due to the innovative nature of the therapies being studied, or the unique methods employed in the trial. You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify, Google Play and Apple Podcasts. 

This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled “The revolutionary impact of understanding genomics”, which covers two articles written for DDW Volume 24 – Issue 3, Summer 2023. They are called: “Open science, genomics, and the quiet revolution in our approach to pharma” and “Junk DNA: How the dark genome is changing RNA therapies”. In the first article, Evan Floden, CEO of Seqera Labs, examines how data sharing platforms are impacting cancer and genomics research. In the second article, Samir Ounzain, CEO & Co-Founder of HAYA Therapeutics, looks at how a better understanding of our DNA can lead to increased activity for RNA therapeutics.