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Can genetic data be a magic bullet for drug R&D?

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Drug development has long been an issue for the pharma industry, due to the expense and the high failure rate of potential treatments. Ben Hargreaves finds that the vast amount of genetic data that exists today could help provide a faster, more targeted way of developing new drug candidates.

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Italfarmaco’s Duvyzat Wins FDA Approval as First Nonsteroidal Treatment for All Genetic Variants of DMD

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Duvyzat, a histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor that works to reduce inflammation and muscle loss, is the first nonsteroidal drug approved to treat patients with all genetic variants of DMD. Progressive muscle weakness in the disease is caused by genetic mutations in the dystrophin gene that lead to a lack of functional dystrophin protein.

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How Pharma Companies Can – And Should – Improve Social Determinants of Health

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They can include the conditions in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age 1,2 — as well as factors like economic policies and systems, development agendas, social norms, social policies and political systems. Pharmaceutical companies can develop and disperse these materials.

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Sophia Genetics launches AI tool to find COVID-19 ‘unknowns’

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Swiss medical data specialist Sophia Genetics has launched a platform that will sift through data generated at more than 1,000 hospitals around the world to try to work out how the COVID-19 pandemic will evolve in the coming months and years. The post Sophia Genetics launches AI tool to find COVID-19 ‘unknowns’ appeared first on.

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Big pharma companies partner to form AI-based start-up

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Noga Yerushalmi, investment director at M Ventures (the venture arm of Merck), tells us how AION Labs was formed and aspires to help ease the pharma industry’s shared challenges by offering its vast resources a new start-up. Then, a development stage or optimisation stage occurs. The partnership. ” The Application .

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How using AI in clinical trials accelerates drug development

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Pharma R&D teams are solving this problem by leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) in clinical trials to save time and money. Drug development is already a difficult endeavor, with the vast majority of R&D efforts failing to produce a market-worthy product. Food and Drug Administration approval.

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FDA’s treatment of China-developed drugs spurs demands for multiregional clinical trials

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The investment flowing into the sector is not limited to just the development of medicines, there has also been a focus on rapidly developing capability and capacity to manufacture both traditional pharmaceuticals and biologic medicines. Only last month , the US company Merck agreed to pay a potential $1.4