Articles on key issues related to the pharma industry from the heads of leading pharmaceutical companies and pharma industry experts across the globe. The pharma industry articles' section focuses on current and emerging issues in areas such as Strategic developments in the pharma industry, pharmaceutical R&D, drug discovery, clinical trials, pharmaceutical manufacturing, biopharmaceuticals, and information technology.
IntroductionFor the past ten years ample evidence exists to suggest that what we eat and how we live determines how our body and genes behave A rapid rise in diabetic population noticed during the past thirty years has largely been attributed to lifestyle and physical inactivity While the lifest...
IntroductionAlthough multiple therapies are used in treating cancer disease amongst affected individuals it still continues to be progressing worldwide Conventional chemotherapy instead of achieving a positive outcome waiting for a longer time it rather worsens the condition as evident from case...
Cancer as a group of heterogeneous diseases very well known Unimaginable amounts of money and manhours have been spent in finding cure for this deadly disease Howeverit still remains in the top five list of diseases affecting mankind Millions of patients suffer worldwide every single day hoping to g...
IntroductionCombinatorial chemistry High Throughput Screening technique HTS and other computeraided methods have proved their usefulness for drug design and development with requisite pharmacological activity Bajaj et al To attain increased potency receptor binding is utmost important where rec...
IntroductionThe idea of Blood Brain Barrier BBB dates back to more than years ago when Paul Erlich observed that by intravenous injection of certain dyes all organs of the animal body were stained except the brain and the spinal cord The densely packed brain endothelial cells are the main part of...
IntroductionMOFs are evolving novel hybrid materials comprised of two component of inorganic and an organic fraction with diverse physicochemical characteristics MOFs have a high degree of porosity size tunability biocompatibility biodegradability and functionalisation capabilities Structurally M...
IntroductionCancer is second most prevalent and lethal disease after cardiovascular disorder despite of advances in tumor biology research and chemotherapy The nanotechnology tremendously growing with due advances in nanomedicine and drug delivery system The mantra of nanotherapy in cancer based o...
Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles MSNs have attracted great attention over the last decade as a drug delivery system in the fields of biotechnology and Nano medicine due to their unique and adjustable physiochemical properties MSNs were first synthesised by Mobil researchers in and were called Mobil...
Antimicrobials treatments that kill or inhibit the growth of microorganisms are effective and necessary in medicine However organisms and microbes have increasingly begun to resist antimicrobial agents through evolutionary change and mutations Resistance to antimicrobials creates a difficult path fo...
A working model for collaborative public-private drug discovery
In drug discovery the search for new chemical equity to be developed into valuable preclinical and clinical candidates is very time and costintensive This is a particular difficulty for academics or small and medium enterprises SMEs who are likely to have limited resources Additionally small compani...
