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Scientists uncover secret to success in new class of cancer drugs

Drug Discovery World

CELMoDs are designed to attack cancer by binding to a regulatory protein called cereblon, which then triggers the degradation of key cancer-driving proteins. . One enduring problem for the field has been the fact that some of these drugs bind tightly to cereblon, yet fail to cause sufficient degradation of their protein targets. .

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What to expect from PEGS Europe 2023: Day 3

Drug Discovery World

Ahead of protein and antibody engineering conference PEGS Europe 2024 in Lisbon, DDW’s Megan Thomas looks at what to expect from each track of the annual biologics technology meeting. Ali Madani, PhD, Founder and CEO, Profluent Bio, on: ‘Protein engineering with large language models’.

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PFIZER REPORTS STRONG FIRST-QUARTER 2021 RESULTS

The Pharma Data

In February 2021, Pfizer and BioNTech announced results from an in vitro study published in NEJM that demonstrated sera from individuals immunized with BNT162b2 neutralize SARS-CoV-2 with the South African variant spike protein. The study investigated the full set of South African variant (also known as B.1.351 Amy Rose 212.733.7410.