Cancer Vaccines: Ready for Prime Time or Another False Dawn?

Cancer Vaccines: Ready for Prime Time or Another False Dawn? Moderna and BioNTech recently reported positive early clinical data for mRNA cancer vaccines in combination with PD-1/L1 inhibitors, so...
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Drug Repurposing: Realities and Roadblocks

Drug Repurposing Market: Realities and Roadblocks We receive a steady stream of enquiries about opportunities in drug repurposing, often from people who see a short, low risk pathway to large...
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The race is on: after almost six decades, RSV vaccines near the finish line

The COVID-19 pandemic established that, when push comes to shove, successful vaccine development and deployment can be conducted at breakneck speed, even when largely untried and untested...
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Targeted protein degradation: a new pharmacology paradigm?

Traditional drug development focuses on targeting proteins with a defined binding pocket or active site to regulate protein activity. These strategies have exploited only around 400 of the 4000...
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Targeted Radiotherapy: The Comeback Kid of Cancer Treatment?

The notion that a systemically administered source of radiation can be usefully directed towards a tumor has been exploited since the 1940s, when radioiodine was introduced as a treatment for thyroid...
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Could COVID-19 be a catalyst for virtualizing clinical trials?

The virtualization of clinical trials has long been technically feasible, but cultural and regulatory barriers have prevented implementation. With over 1200 clinical trials worldwide being...
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COVID-19: a catalyst for anti-infective investing?

There has been a persistent call from early stage innovators to shine a spotlight on building anti-infective defenses in light of the looming crisis of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Unfortunately,...
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The risk-reward balance in drug repurposing

Does drug repurposing overcome the hurdles and pitfalls in drug development? Having conducted several recent due diligence exercises in the repurposing space, we discuss the gems and the hidden...
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Monetizing the microbiome

Based on some neat guesstimating1, the number of bacteria in the gut roughly equals the number of cells in our bodies, so it’s no surprise that such a substantial (around 200g in a 70kg adult) and...
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Is Gilead’s Selonsertib for NASH Dead?

Title: Is Gilead’s Selonsertib for NASH Dead? Author: Peter G. Traber, MD Date: 02/12/2019 Introduction The search for an effective therapy for NASH with advanced fibrosis/cirrhosis suffered a major...
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Orkambi UK - Sound and Fury

By Anthony Walker, PhD, Managing Partner There’s a lot of sound and fury about Orkambi in the UK. Following a rejection from NICE, Vertex and NHS England have not been able to reach terms and the...
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Why Every Biotech Needs a Scouting Function

Alacrita frequently supports companies with their search and evaluation activities. Our scouting support is often structured to integrate with a client’s internal efforts to generate a flow of new...
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