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Cannabinoids receptors: popular preclinical target but banned in 137 countries

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Collectively, cannabinoid receptors (CB1 and CB2) are currently the most popular targets in preclinical stage of development, with 391 drugs tagged in total. In most EU and Commonwealth countries, including the UK, New Zealand and Australia, cannabinoids are legal for medical use.

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Immunocore gets EU nod for TCR cancer therapy Kimmtrak

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Immunocore now has approval on both side of the Atlantic for Kimmtrak – the first cancer therapeutic based on T cell receptor (TCR) technology – after getting a green light from the European Commission. Uveal melanoma is a rare cancer of the eye, which in the majority of patients is localised. ” Image by Pexels from Pixabay

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After a slow start for expensive CAR-T therapies, drug developers revisit oral therapies for blood cancer

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There’s been huge progress in treatments for blood cancer in recent years – but drawbacks of expensive CAR-T cell and injected antibody therapies have led drug developers to look at novel oral therapies as patient-friendly alternatives. These are particularly important in the progression of certain blood cancers.

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Twenty Women Leaders In Healthcare Industry

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Education: She is a Post Graduate Research Fellow in Gastroenterology and Immunology from Stanford University School of Medicine. Designation: Chief Scientific Officer Previous company: Toumaz UK Ltd. (15 Other Affiliations: Alison works as a visiting researcher at Imperial College's Institute of Biomedical Engineering.

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Putting complex medicines under the microscope

European Pharmaceutical Review

Advanced light microscopy techniques have emerged as a foundation of biomedical research, capable of visualising cellular functions at very high resolution whilst being minimally invasive to the cells or tissues of interest. This will help researchers to understand how formulation can improve cellular uptake to be more efficient.

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Risk sharing agreements soar as market access risk increases

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Over the last twenty years, there has been a major rise in risk sharing agreements in the pharmaceutical space, said Alex Watt, GlobalData’s principal research analyst, at a recent webinar on the same topic. In some cases, she said, “[drug] innovation would have been otherwise hindered by their price tag alone”.