Complete Accounts of Integrated Drug Discovery and Development: Recent Examples from the Pharmaceutical Industry Volume 1

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Discovery ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industry ◽  
Drug Discovery And Development

Making medicines

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 302-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth K. McClain ◽  
Yolanda Johnson-Moton ◽  
Bryan Larsen ◽  
Rebecca J. Bartlett Ellis ◽  
Eric Niederhoffer
Keyword(s):  
Drug Discovery ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industry ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Course Development ◽  
Educational Partnerships ◽  
Collaborative Process ◽  
Drug Discovery And Development ◽  
Online Module ◽  
Systems Thinking Approach

The approach to building innovative partnerships between academia and the pharmaceutical industry has expanded to investigate collaborations that offer meaningful outcomes beyond discovery and increased productivity. This case study uses a systems thinking approach to guide the process and analyse the outcome of a partnership undertaken by one pharmaceutical company and academia. The collaborative process established three tiers of evolution over a 3-year period. The outcome was an online module–based course, entitled ‘Making Medicines: The Process of Drug Development’, that provides information about the drug discovery and development process. Both the course development and the final product serve as a useful case study of how collaboration between academia and industry might be achieved. The development process itself is proposed as an appropriate approach for building educational partnerships.

The importance of synthetic chemistry in the pharmaceutical industry

Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 363 (6424) ◽  
pp. eaat0805 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin R. Campos ◽  
Paul J. Coleman ◽  
Juan C. Alvarez ◽  
Spencer D. Dreher ◽  
Robert M. Garbaccio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Drug Discovery ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industry ◽  
Synthetic Methods ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Synthetic Chemistry ◽  
Drug Discovery And Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
The Face ◽  
Chemical Matter

Innovations in synthetic chemistry have enabled the discovery of many breakthrough therapies that have improved human health over the past century. In the face of increasing challenges in the pharmaceutical sector, continued innovation in chemistry is required to drive the discovery of the next wave of medicines. Novel synthetic methods not only unlock access to previously unattainable chemical matter, but also inspire new concepts as to how we design and build chemical matter. We identify some of the most important recent advances in synthetic chemistry as well as opportunities at the interface with partner disciplines that are poised to transform the practice of drug discovery and development.

scholarly journals Importance of scientific collaboration in contemporary drug discovery and development: a detailed network analysis

BMC Biology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Feixiong Cheng ◽  
Yifang Ma ◽  
Brian Uzzi ◽  
Joseph Loscalzo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Drug Discovery ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Pharmaceutical Industry ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Scientific Collaboration ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Drug Discovery And Development

Abstract Background Growing evidence shows that scientific collaboration plays a crucial role in transformative innovation in the life sciences. For example, contemporary drug discovery and development reflects the work of teams of individuals from academic centers, the pharmaceutical industry, the regulatory science community, health care providers, and patients. However, public understanding of how collaborations between academia and industry catalyze novel target identification and first-in-class drug discovery is limited. Results We perform a comprehensive network analysis on a large scientific corpus of collaboration and citations (97,688 papers with 1,862,500 citations from 170 million scientific records) to quantify the success trajectory of innovative drug development. By focusing on four types of cardiovascular drugs, we demonstrate how knowledge flows between institutions to highlight the underlying contributions of many different institutions in the development of a new drug. We highlight how such network analysis could help to increase industrial and governmental support, and improve the efficiency or accelerate decision-making in drug discovery and development. Conclusion We demonstrate that network analysis of large public databases can identify and quantify investigator and institutional relationships in drug discovery and development. If broadly applied, this type of network analysis may help to enhance public understanding of and support for biomedical research, and could identify factors that facilitate decision-making in first-in-class drug discovery among academia, the pharmaceutical industry, and healthcare systems.

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