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Drug discovery hotspots: Focus on Qatar

Drug Discovery World

DDW Editor Reece Armstrong takes a look at Qatar’s drug discovery and life sciences market, exploring how the country is utilising innovative technologies in its approach to healthcare. The Middle East represents one of the world’s most lucrative markets for pharmaceuticals.

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New Research Reveals How Air Pollution May Trigger Lung Cancer

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Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and University College London in the UK have found how air pollution can trigger the activation of cells with existing genetic mutations to form cancer. The researchers performed a combination of human and animal experiments to examine a potential link between PM 2.5

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Biorepositories as a Guiding Resource for Research & Drug Discovery

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The power of leveraging clinical data to decipher disease mechanisms and fuel drug discovery has rapidly grown in the era of genomics and personalized medicine. Biobanks are used for the coordination of high-yield patient sample collection. Generation of strong research dataset cohorts must begin with high-quality clinical samples.

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HFpEF vs. HFrEF: How To Improve Heart Failure Drug Development

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New advances in heart failure genomics are helping to address this challenge. Experts from Servier and Genuity Science recently spoke on a webinar about using genomics data to drive drug development in heart failure and identify new targets for novel therapeutics. Watch this on-demand webinar to hear from these experts.

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How biomarkers can help discover new treatments for women’s health

Drug Discovery World

We previously conducted a hypothesis-free study using genotype data from the UK Biobank, which resulted in the first mechanism-based stratification of endometriosis patients. Genomic medicine has therefore had limited impact on improving diagnosis or treatment in endometriosis and other chronic diseases.

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