August 26, 2019
China is rapidly emerging as world’s fastest growing pharmaceutical industry. The market is poised to reach $175B by 20221. Faster regulatory approvals and widening market access are some of the major drivers to this growth. China’s rapidly-moving health care industry and unique market characteristics has often required a pharmaceutical company […]
August 8, 2019
A brief history Even though Alexander Fleming discovered the first antibiotic penicillin in 1928, it was introduced into the market as a commercial therapeutic for bacterial infection, only in 1940. It was Gerhard Domaghk who developed the first commercial antibacterial Prontosil, a sulfonamide, in 1930s. The introduction of penicillin marked […]
August 2, 2019
The tediously long and risk-laden process of translating a discovery in biology to a marketable medical breakthrough starts with identifying a repertoire of molecules that will bring about the desired effect. What is it, really? Let´s start with the basics – the definition of phenotype itself. A phenotype is […]
July 23, 2019
In August 2018, patisiran, a first-in-class therapy was approved in the US and EU to treat the polyneuropathy associated with a genetic disease 002D hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis. The therapy uses small pieces of ribonucleic acid (RNA) to effectively ‘silence’ a faulty gene, without changing the deoxy ribonucleic acid (DNA) of […]