Imagine a gem hunter facing a vast and uncharted landscape to uncover a single beautiful diamond. It is a bit like drug discovery. Scientists create and evaluate hundreds and thousands of molecules in ...
With just the click of a button on your smartphone, you can order virtually anything and have it on your doorstep in one or two days. Customers now expect their healthcare experience to be similarly ...
In the world of biopharmaceutical innovation, groundbreaking scientific discoveries often do not directly translate into commercial success. Simply developing a promising therapeutic based on great ...
No drug is free from risks, and no two human anatomies are completely identical (meaning different individuals can face different risks), but from a real-world patient perspective — anecdotally — the ...
Then: In 2016, when former Life Science Leader editor Rob Wright wrote about cofounder Peter Hecht and Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, the company was ascending. After its initial launch in 1998, the ...
Approximately one in eight women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with breast cancer during their lifetime. Nearly 30 percent of women who are diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer will eventually ...
Even in the best funding environments, raising money for drug discovery is an enormous challenge. It takes about 10 years and upwards of a billion dollars to move a drug candidate from the lab through ...
“I don’t care where you place me, but just make sure it’s terrifying,” was the last input I gave when my company, Novo Nordisk, was determining my job swap for the next year. So when I first learned ...