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March’s key industry appointments

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A round-up of the latest senior appointments in the drug discovery sector over the last month. Julian Collins, Jana Windt and Michiel Stork, ProBioGen Julian Collins has been appointed as Senior Vice President, Head of People & Organizational Development (P&OD) and a member of the Executive Team.

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Oxford Nanopore makes stellar debut on UK stock market

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Shares in DNA sequencing specialist Oxford Nanopore rocketed after the company made its debut on the London Stock Exchange yesterday, rising nearly 50% to propel its valuation up towards the £5 billion ($6.7 billion) mark. Chief technology officer Clive Brown is also sitting on a £10 million stake. .”

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Investment fuels AI-driven development of breakthrough genomic medicines

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“We founded Whitelab Genomics after realising the potential to use data, data science, and AI in a more systematic way to develop genomic therapies,” Del Bourgo says. Poulard goes onto add that, “we think that for the last five years digital technologies and AI have demonstrated the strong value they add to the drug discovery process.

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How to advance AAV-based gene therapies

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Sara Donnelly, Director of Research Planning and Business Development at PhoenixBio USA explores why the right pre-clinical model is essential for teams wanting to advance adeno-associated virus vector-based gene therapies. Food & Drug Administration (2022) FDA Approves First Gene Therapy to Treat Adults with Hemophilia B.

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[Panel Webinar] How to tap into pharma’s $100bn digital transformation opportunity

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Find out how to construct a digital-enabled business model to enhance your digital transformation journey during this panel discussion with Merck. Next-generation digital technologies are having an immense impact on the drug discovery process. Boehm has a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Nottingham, UK.

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Bayer strengthens gene therapy portfolio with lipid nanoparticle technology from Acuitas Therapeutics

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LNPs are spheric drug delivery bodies which can be equipped with therapeutic payloads for intracellular delivery. Acuitas’ proprietary LNP technology is used in multiple vaccines and therapeutics in clinical development and was also used in some of the COVID-19 vaccines that were approved and administered to people in 180 countries.

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Drug discovery’s latest top-level appointments

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The last couple of months has seen a number of changes in senior roles in the drug discovery sector. He holds a PhD in Chemistry for early work on antibody drug conjugates in 1987 and was awarded the Bioprocessing Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021.

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