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Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited

Chief Medical & Scientific Officer
Scientific progress depends upon collaboration iPS cell technology is at the forefront of pharmaceutical innovation and Takeda strives to bring innovative treatments to patients Both Takeda and CiRA have the common goal of providing patients and healthcare professionals with innovative new treatments

Articles

CAR-T Cell Therapy and NexCAR19

Radiation therapy chemotherapy and surgery have been the cornerstones of cancer treatment for many years While they remain essential therapy pillars recent advancements in the field have significantly changed the treatment landscape for cancer patients

Research Insights

Comparative Genomic Landscape of Lower-grade Glioma and Glioblastoma

Biomarkers for classifying and grading gliomas have been extensively explored whereas populations in public databases were mostly WesternEuropean Based on public databases cannot accurately represent Chinese population To identify molecular characteristics

Case Studies

Ambient Stable Biologics - Stable Aqueous Erythropoietin

Challenge Erythropoietin EPO is known to aggregate under heat stress which prevents storage of liquid compositions at ambient temperature The key challenge of this study was to demonstrate that the application of the ArestatT tools can reduce significantly aggregation of EPO at an elevated temperature compared with a marketed liquid formulation

Techno Trends

Pfizer Developed Elranatamab for Relapsed or Refractory Multiple Myeloma

Pfizer Inc developed investigational elranatamab a cancer immunotherapy for the treatment of indivuduals with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma RRMM Elranatamab is bindedwith Bcell maturation antigen BCMACDtargeted bispecific antibody BsAb present on the surface of multiple myeloma MM cells and the CD receptor found

White Papers

Cloud Computing in the Laboratory Informatics Solutions and Validation Approaches

In the modern business environment, a significant portion of work is conducted using computerized systems. Many solutions are used to complete tasks, including simple desktop programs like email and Microsoft Office to enterprise-wide, global systems like ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), MES (Manufacturing Execution System), and LIMS

TOP ARTICLES

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Nanotechnology based Drug Delivery for Infectious Diseases

Dr. Vinod Kumar Rajana

Dr. Vinod Kumar Rajana, Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics, specializes in nanotechnology, bioassays, and infectious disease research. With expertise in nanoparticle synthesis, biotechnology, and drug delivery, his work integrates green chemistry with pharmaceutical innovation to develop sustainable, low-cost nanomaterials for topical antifungal and anticancer therapies, water purification, and biomedical applications.

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Emerging Technologies in Pharmaceutical Sciences

Abhishek Rungta

Abhishek Rungta is the Founder and CEO of INT. (Indus Net Technologies), a full-stack digital transformation company serving 500+ enterprise clients across 45 countries. He writes on enterprise AI adoption, digital transformation, and long-term business building.

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Machine Learning for New Drugs

Sneha Rai

Sneha Rai completed her Ph.D. from Computational and Structural Biology Lab., Department of Biological Sciences and Engineering at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (DU). She did masters in Bioinformatics from Banaras Hindu University and holds six years of bioinformatics research experience. Her area of interest includes structural bioinformatics, systems biology, protein/gene network analysis, data mining, computer aided drug designing, computational genomics, NGS data analysis, variant analysis and their clinical interpretation.

 

Venugopal Bhatia

Venugopal Bhatia graduated from NSIT in 2019 with a B.E. in Biotechnology. During his undergraduate studies he was involved as an undergraduate researcher at the Computational and Structural Biology Laboratory and worked on two projects which were later published in Nature Scientific Reports and Elsevier Computational Biology and Chemistry. After a brief stint in industry, he's now pursuing his Master's at Yale.

 

Sonika Bhatnagar

Sonika Bhatnagar, Ph.D. (Biophysics), AIIMS works in the broad area of computational molecular biology. Her laboratory uses techniques of drug target selection, drug design & discovery, machine learning, and integrative genomics & proteomics towards Cardiovascular disease drug design and infectious disease therapeutics.

 

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The Therapeutics Landscape of Miniproteins

Victor H Bustos

Victor H. Bustos, Ph.D., is the Vice President of Preclinical R&D at Ordaos Bio. A specialist in protein engineering with a doctorate in Biomedicine, he leads the design of AI-generated mini-proteins. Previously, he spent 17 years at Rockefeller University focusing on complex cellular mechanisms and therapeutic target validation.

Alena Romanova

Alena Romanova is a Scientist I at Ordaos Bio, where she develops experimental workflows for protein characterisation and biologics discovery, including the application of cell-free protein expression and biochemical assays.

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How PBM's Transformed to Provide Easy Access to Prescription Drugs Post COVID 19

Ravi Iyer

Technology Executive - Big Data, Analytics, Cloud, Digital, Elevance Health, Inc.

Narasimha Reddy Nalamalapu

Narasimha is result driven leader with vast experience in executing various PBM, Health care, Financial, and securities trading applications. Technical expertise in Big data, Cloud, Analytics, Mainframe, BPM, testing, and Data warehouse projects at esteemed organizations like Anthem, Tetrasoft, DST, HCL, Deutsche bank, and Atos Origin. He currently works as Solution Architect at Tetrasoft Inc.
.Narasimha has vast experience in Pre-sales, Project management, effective customer communication, Architect, Technical Lead, On-site coordinator, and business Analyst roles for various complex assignments across the globe.

 

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Telix and Ekalia to Collaborate on Astatine-211 Production in the U.S.

Telix and Ekalia a joint venture between IBA Ion Beam Applications SA EURONEXT and Framatome today announced a collaboration to advance scalable United States US production of astatine At an alphaemitting radioisotope being investigated for targeted alpha therapy

HistoIndex and A*STAR Partner To Advance Early – Stage Development Of Pipeline Therapies For Fibrotic Diseases

HistoIndex a pioneer in AIdriven digital pathology for fibrotic diseases and the Agency for Science Technology and Research ASTAR Singapores lead public sector RD agency have signed a Memorandum of Understanding MoU to collaborate on the preclinical evaluation

Cotecna Group Acquires Energon Labs

Cotecna a leading provider of Testing Inspection and Certification TIC services today announced the acquisition of Energon Labs a cGMPcompliant USFDAinspected ISO and ISO certified analytical testing laboratory based in Hyderabad India

Waters Launches AI Link, Advancing AI-Enabled LC-MS Workflows from Research to Release

Waters Corporation announced that it has launched Waters AI Link a software capability that brings Anthropics Model Context Protocol MCP to its informatics platform and has joined Anthropics Model Hardware Standard MHS research program

Takeda’s ORZEYFUL (oveporexton) Launches Simultaneously in Japan and China Giving Physicians First Access to Prescribe Novel Orexin Agonist to Patients with Narcolepsy Type 1

Takeda announced that ORZEYFUL oveporexton is now available in Japan and China for the treatment of narcolepsy type NT providing first access to clinicians to prescribe treatment with the new class of medicine ORZEYFUL is a firstinclass orexin receptor OXR agonist in tablet form designed to treat...

Merck Inaugurates State-of-the-Art ADVANCE Bioanalytical Facility on West Point, Pennsylvania, Campus

Merck known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada today inaugurated its stateoftheart ADVANCE research facility on its West Point Pennsylvania campus signaling a new chapter in global scientific discovery Pennsylvania Gov Josh Shapiro joined Merck executive leadership federal and state gove...

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UCB Receives Approval for ZILBRYSQ Autoinjector for Adults with Generalised Myasthenia Gravis

UCB has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration FDA for a new autoinjector option for ZILBRYSQ zilucoplan a treatment for adults with generalised myasthenia gravis gMG who test positive for antiacetylcholine receptor AChR antibodies

Nxera Pharma Partners with Synmosa to Commercialise QUVIVIQ

Nxera Pharma has entered into an exclusive licensing supply and commercialisation agreement with Synmosa Biopharma to expand access to QUVIVIQ daridorexant a medicine used to treat insomnia across eight AsiaPacific markets QUVIVIQ was discovered and developed by Idorsia Pharmaceuticals

Vir Biotechnology Enters into Collaboration with Gilead Sciences to Develop T-cell Engagers for Solid Tumours

Vir Biotechnology has entered into a collaboration and licensing agreement with Gilead Sciences to discover and develop three novel Tcell engager TCE candidates for the treatment of solid tumours Tcell engagers are designed to direct T cells a type of immune cell towards cancer cells and help destro...

Zealand Pharma Enters into Collaboration with Generate Biomedicines on AI-Designed Protein Therapies for Metabolic Diseases

Zealand Pharma and Generate Biomedicines have entered into a multitarget collaboration and licensing agreement to develop proteinbased treatments for obesity and other metabolic diseases using artificial intelligence AI The collaboration will combine Zealand Pharmas expertise in metabolic diseases w...

Enodia Therapeutics Enters into Collaboration with Pfizer to Develop Small-Molecule Sec61 Inhibitors

Enodia Therapeutics has entered into a research collaboration and licensing agreement with Pfizer to discover and develop smallmolecule inhibitors targeting Sec a protein complex involved in the movement of newly formed proteins across cell membranes

InnoCare Announces Approval of Clinical Trial of Bispecific Antibody ICP-B161 Targeting TL1A and IL-23p19 in China

InnoCare Pharma a leading biopharmaceutical company focusing on the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases announced today that the Center for Drug Evaluation CDE of Chinas National Medical Products Administration NMPA has approved its Investigational New Drug IND application for ICPB a bispeci...