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. With National Cancer Research Month coming to an end in May and the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting currently taking pl…
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Innovating now to reinvent the future of drug discovery
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, “Innovating now to reinvent the future of drug discovery”. It covers three articles written for Volume 23, Issue 2 – Spring 2022 of DDW. They are called “Predictive biomarkers in the age of spatial biology”, “Exploiting the microbiome to drive nature – inspired innovation”, and “Animal re…
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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 theme of DDW's news review this week is money. Although Clarivate has reported a recent drop in investment in the industry, it is good t…
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What’s at the forefront of innovation?
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW podcast, “What’s at the forefront of innovation?” It covers three articles written for the for Volume 23, Issue 2 – Spring 2022 of DDW. They are called “Can animal genomics help find therapies for human disease?”, “Understanding and innovating in immunology”, and “Cell and gene therapies: Opportunities 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. It was recently Clinical Trials Day and DDW have reported on the launch of a number of new Phase I trials. In-human studies have been initia…
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How precision medicine will transform clinical trials
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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 latest episode, DDW's Megan Thomas is in conversation with Dr Michael Pace, Global & Strategic Feasibility Expert at Rho. Leveraging historical trial databas…
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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. DDW's Diana Spencer has selected five stand-out news headlines this week, which all relate to immunotherapy or immunomodulatory therapies fo…
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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. Each of our top five stories this week exemplify the scientific curiosity that fuels the drug discovery sector, ultimately leading to better…
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The impact of technology on drug discovery
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, “The impact of technology on drug discovery”. It covers two articles written for Volume 23, Issue 2 – Spring 2022 of DDW. They are called “Talking Tech” and “Rejuvenation biotech: Can this company make age a thing of the past?” With Covid-19 taking so much of the drug discovery and develo…
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Disease X: The 100 Days Mission to End Pandemics
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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 latest episode, DDW's Megan Thomas is in conversation with Kate Kelland, author of Disease X: The 100 Days Mission to End Pandemics, which explores the emerg…
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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 stories dominating the headlines this week have been the breaking developments in cancer drug discovery announced at the American A…
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How Cancer Research Horizons is innovating through its academic and industry interface
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The latest sponsored DDW Sitting Down With podcast features Steve Wedge, Chief Scientific Officer of Cancer Research Horizons and Mike Waring, Head of Academic Medicinal Chemistry at Cancer Research Horizons. They discuss the work Cancer Research Horizons is conducting at its site in Newcastle University; how Cancer Research Horizons operates withi…
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How a target safety assessment supports the drug development process
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In the latest sponsored DDW Sitting Down With podcast Professor Ruth Roberts, Co-Founder ApconiX and Claire Sadler, Project Toxicologist, discuss the benefits of carrying out a target safety assessment (TSA) during drug discovery and development whenever a biological target is going to be modulated. The speakers outline how TSAs can be used through…
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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 headlines this week have revealed a high level of clinical trial activity taking place internationally. In just the last few days, new c…
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Data integrity and the value of the cloud
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW podcast, “Data integrity and the value of the cloud”. It covers two articles written for the exclusive DDW & SLAS2022 supplement published in Volume 23, Issue 1 – Winter 2021/22 of DDW. They are called “The concept of data integrity” and “Remote working: when the cloud meets the lab”. 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. As March draws to a close, this week’s key announcements have demonstrated the breadth of international approaches to tackling cancer, with …
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Painting a picture of the lab of the future
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW podcast, “Painting a picture of the lab of the future”. It covers two articles written for the exclusive DDW & SLAS2022 supplement published in Volume 23, Issue 1 – Winter 2021/22 of DDW. They are called “Perspective: education and lab automation” and “The lab of the future is now”. In the first article, J…
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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 we have seen a number of developments in the treatment of solid tumours hitting the headlines. Pennsylvania researchers may have f…
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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 news this week, we have covered a number of early-stage studies that could lead to potentially huge breakthroughs in the treatment of…
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Mass spectrometry and CRISPR are pillars of drug discovery
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW podcast, “Mass spectrometry and CRISPR are pillars of drug discovery”. It covers two articles written for Volume 23, Issue 1 – Winter 2021/22 of DDW. They are called “How ASMS offers more than seeing what sticks” and “CRISPR screening in the third dimension”. In the first article, Dr. Zack Gurard-Levin, Ch…
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Perhaps most interestingly this week, after previous caution over in vivo gene therapy trials, the FDA has given the go ahead to Intellia Therapeutics to study NTLA-2002 in hereditary angioedema (HAE). There have been several other announcements related to clinical trials in the last few days, including positive data from trials in severe influenza…
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Bringing new drugs to untreatable diseases
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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 latest episode, DDW's Megan Thomas is in conversation with Dr Simon Fricker, who just last year was made Chief Development Officer of PepperBio to support th…
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As well as providing extensive coverage of the SLAS2023 meeting in San Diego and Rare Disease Day, DDW has also reported on a number of developments in cancer drug discovery this week. Most notably, a 20-year mystery regarding the ‘dark matter’ of the genome has been solved and researchers have announced preclinical success in treating ovarian canc…
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The benefits of early ion channel screening
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The latest sponsored DDW Sitting Down With podcast features Dr Michael Morton, Director and Co-founder, ApconiX, and Dr Kimberly Rockley of ApconiX who discuss the benefits of early ion channel screening. The podcast covers the hERG ion channel and its importance in cardiac safety screening in drug discovery. Morton and Rockley outline the options …
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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. Our news highlights this week focus on research into vaccines, with good news for the treatment or prevention of various challenging conditi…
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Ahead of this year’s SLAS2023 conference in San Diego (which takes place 25 February – 1 March) DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates articles from the DDW SLAS2023 supplement as part of the DDW Events podcast series. This is the final episode and the fifth in the series for the SLAS2023 edition of the DDW Events podcast. It is called, Harnessing the power o…
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Ahead of this year’s SLAS2023 conference in San Diego (which takes place 25 February – 1 March) DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates articles from the DDW SLAS2023 supplement as part of the DDW Events podcast series. This is episode four, How machine learning and lab automation are changing the future of protein therapeutics. In this article, Kristen Hopson…
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Ahead of this year’s SLAS2023 conference in San Diego (which takes place 25 February – 1 March) DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates articles from the DDW SLAS2023 supplement as part of the DDW Events podcast series. This is episode three, Connecting lab automation to decision-making. In this episode, we hear from Ashwin Pillai, a Test Engineer 3 in HTS & A…
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Ahead of this year’s SLAS2023 conference in San Diego (which takes place 25 February – 1 March) DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates articles from the DDW SLAS2023 supplement as part of the DDW Events podcast series. This is episode two, Acquiring deeper insights and acceleration with AI. At IBM Research, a group of scientists and researchers from around th…
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Ahead of this year’s SLAS2023 conference in San Diego (which takes place 25 February – 1 March) DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates articles from the DDW SLAS2023 supplement as part of the DDW Events podcast series. This is episode one, A Welcome to SLAS 2023, which includes two comment pieces. Thomas wrote the first one, We have the building blocks: Onto …
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Solving the integration puzzle: How open ecosystem holds the key to unlock the potential of lab data
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The latest sponsored DDW Sitting Down With podcast features Simon Bungers, CEO, Labforward and explains why the promises of big data, AI and ML are only illusions if the integration puzzle isn’t solved. Among the topics Lu Rahman, Publishing Director, DDW discusses with Bungers are connectivity and interoperability in the lab – connecting data, dev…
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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. As 4 February was World Cancer Day, this week’s update focused on developments in the field of oncology. Drugs for lung cancer, lymphoma and…
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The impact of synthetic biology and collaboration in pharma
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW podcast. It covers two articles written for Volume 23, Issue 1 – Winter 2021/22 of DDW. They are called “Why synthetic biology is the next big thing for biopharma” and “Collaborative spirit helps drive innovation”. 'Can synthetic biology save us?’ and ‘Synthetic biology can benefit us all’, are just some o…
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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. Cell and gene therapies have been making the news this week, as we launch our very own guide to global innovation in CGT with the Winter iss…
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CRO’s and targeted protein degradation offer an exciting future
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW podcast, “CRO’s and targeted protein degradation offer an exciting future”. It covers two articles written for Volume 23, Issue 1 – Winter 2021/22 of DDW. They are called “CROs: Drug discovery expertise on hand” and “Why the emergence of targeted protein degradation is so exciting”. In the first article, L…
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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 trials have led our news section this week, with positive results announced from several Phase I and II studies. There was good new…
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A deep dive into the future of ophthalmology
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW podcast, “A deep dive into the future of ophthalmology”. It covers two articles written for Volume 23, Issue 1 – Winter 2021/22 of DDW. They are called “Innovation, investment and commitment: Genentech’s approach to the future of ophthalmology” and “Innovative delivery of sustained ophthalmic steroids for …
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Exclusive expert insights into clinical trials
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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 latest episode, DDW’s Megan Thomas is in conversation with two experts when it comes to clinical trials. First up is Livia Ng, CEO and Founder of Neuroute. 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. Once again, research partnerships and licence agreements have dominated the news this week, as drug discovery companies seek new ways to com…
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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 drug discovery industry has hit the ground running in 2023 with some big announcements in the first week, particularly in cancer researc…
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Finding the right cancer drug with high-content screening
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW podcast, “Finding the right cancer drug with high-content screening”. It covers an article by the same name written for Volume 23, Issue 1 – Winter 2021/22 of DDW. In the article, Lassi Paavolainen, Principal Investigator at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), Vilja Pietiäinen, Adjunct Pro…
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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 focus has been on immunotherapy and genetics this week, with exciting developments in the treatment of multiple myeloma, atopic dermatit…
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Is genomic data the new frontier in drug discovery?
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW podcast, “Is genomic data the new frontier in drug discovery?”. It covers two articles written for Volume 23, Issue 1 – Winter 2021/22 of DDW. They are called “Genomics boosts understanding of Covid-19 severity and susceptibility” and “Rare variant contribution to human disease”. The Covid-19 Host Genetics…
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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. ‘Teamwork makes the dream work’ this week, with the launch of new partnerships to further the development of precision drugs in neurodevelop…
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Exploring the microbiome: how it is shaping preclinical research
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The latest DDW Sitting Down With sponsored podcast features Dr. John Couse, Vice President of Scientific Services at Taconic Biosciences who discusses how the microbiome is transforming drug discovery and what this means for pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Couse offers detailed insight into the microbiome and outlines its role in shaping prec…
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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 industry has seen breakthroughs announced in malaria treatment, epilepsy and major depressive disorders. The NHS in England has fast 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. Gene therapies have made the headlines over the last week, with treatments for rare AADC deficiency, lung cancer and haemophilia B given the…
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Complex problems require complex solutions
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW podcast, “Complex problems require complex solutions”. It covers two articles written for Volume 23, Issue 1 – Winter 2021/22 of DDW. They are called “How quantum computing can benefit drug discovery” and “Sitting down with Dr Michael Hayden from Prilenia Therapeutics”. In the first article, Brad Loren, Ma…
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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 started with World Diabetes Day on 14 November and concluded with the start of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, which aims to i…
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The next steps in the fight against cancer
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This is the latest episode of the free DDW podcast, “The next steps in the fight against cancer”. It covers two articles written for Volume 22, Issue 4 – Fall 2021 of DDW. They are called “Accelerating research: the path forward for treating rare cancers” and “Inside combination immunotherapies for cancer”. RareCan is a new company based in the UK.…
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