Personalised medicines tailored to suit an individual’s genetic make-up could revolutionise the future of drug discovery. Frances Davies of NGP talks to Jan Lundberg of AstraZeneca about the revolutionary research needed to take advantage of this potential new direction.
With ever increasing pressure to reduce attrition rates in the search for new drugs, every aspect of the discovery-development process is being scrutinized to identify ways of making the process faster, cheaper and more efficient. Some productivi
Systems biology has had a huge impact on the drug discovery process. But do scientists agree on what this relatively new biological study field comprises? And what impact do the new capabilities in genomics and proteomics have on the pharmaceutical industry? NGP asked Gentronix and Logopharm.
By Uwe Schulte, Logopharm GmbH, Germany