Pharmacology/ Therapeutics

• EuroHYP EU Grant Award for Stroke
  Proteome Sciences plc (“Proteome Sciences”) announces that Euro-HYP-1, a consortium of leading academic, clinical and industrial European partners in which it is a member, has been awarded a near €11m grant under the EU Framework 7 programme for new ground breaking research on the treatment of stroke.
• Rainforest remedy could spell end of dental pain
  An ancient Incan toothache remedy – for centuries handed down among an indigenous people in the rainforests of Peru – could be on the cusp of revolutionising worldwide dental practice.
• Brain network provides hope for tinnitus sufferers
  As Brain Awareness Week (12–18 March) gets underway in the UK, the preliminary findings from the latest tinnitus research suggest that hearing aids might help tinnitus sufferers; research is ongoing into the role the brain has, and how tinnitus symptoms are reflected in brain network activity.
• CRT unveils ‘screen test’ for potential drugs to treat oestrogen positive breast cancer
  Cancer Research UK and its commercial arm, Cancer Research Technology have developed a unique test to discover molecules that could lead to potential new treatments for oestrogen receptor (ER)-positive breast cancer.
• £10 million boost for neglected tropical disease research at Dundee
  The University of Dundee has received over £10 million from the Wellcome Trust in the fight against some of the world’s most neglected parasitic diseases, including support for a multi-million pound partnership with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) to discover new drug treatments.

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25 Hottest Articles

• The growing impact of click chemistry on drug discovery • Review article
  Drug Discovery Today, Volume 8, Issue 24, December 2003, Pages 1128-1137 | Kolb, H.C.; Sharpless, K.B.
• What makes a good drug target? • Review article
  Drug Discovery Today, Volume 16, Issue 23-24, January 2011, Pages 1037-1043 | Gashaw, I.; Ellinghaus, P.; Sommer, A.; Asadullah, K.
• The road ahead for large pharma: long-term science and innovation • Editorial
  Drug Discovery Today, Volume 14, Issue 9-10, May 2009, Pages 439-441 | Lundberg, J.M.; Reilly, C.
• The impact of aromatic ring count on compound developability - are too many aromatic rings a liability in drug design? • Review article
  Drug Discovery Today, Volume 14, Issue 21-22, November 2009, Pages 1011-1020 | Ritchie, T.J.; Macdonald, S.J.F.
• Learning lessons from drugs that have recently entered the market • Review article
  Drug Discovery Today, Volume 16, Issue 9-10, May 2011, Pages 398-411 | Teague, S.J.

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