Russ Swan, Editor, writes:
We see from your search that you're looking for information on the term "Medicinal Chemistry",
and we have a large number of manufacturers' news releases and technical articles here on Laboratorytalk which will be of interest.
Let me be your guide.
Start with
the news release Domainex clinches biotechnology innovation award from
Domainex, which we summarised at the time by saying "Domainex has been named the winner of the Innovation in Enabling Biotechnology Award at the 2007 UK BioEntrepreneurial Company of the Year Awards, presented by UK Trade and Investment in
London".
Earlier in the week,
we featured the news release New HPLC systems speed drug-metabolism studies from
ESA Biosciences: "ESA Biosciences, a Magellan Biosciences company, has launched new HPLC systems designed to help speed drug-metabolism studies and support medicinal chemistry activities".
In July 2007, we covered the news from NCE Discovery
- take a look at NCE Discovery and Domainex merge
which says: "Domainex and NCE Discovery have merged to form a new drug discovery company focused on nucleotide triphosphate (NTP)-dependent proteins".
Take a look also at the news release from Porvair Sciences, Microplate sample concentrator is robot-compatible,
as well as Cancer Research Technology laboratories to expand from Cancer Research UK,
and MedChem India meets in Hyderabad from Select Biosciences.
See also:
Radleys increases R+D investment
(March 2007)
Radleys, a supplier of affordable parallel synthesis and laboratory reactor products, has announced the appointment of Martyn Deal to the position of research and development manager
Workstation benefits academic teaching, research
(February 2007)
Students on pharmacy course at the University of East Anglia synthesis and extract biologically active molecules, analyse purity and assess biological activity with the help of StarFish workstations
Kinase screening agreement with Johnson + Johnson
(January 2007)
Millipore has signed an agreement with Johnson and Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development for protein kinase screening using the Upstate KinaseProfiler service
NCE Discovery and Dara to develop new therapies
(December 2006)
NCE Discovery, a specialist medicinal chemistry and drug design service provider, has entered into an agreement with US-based Dara BioSciences to work on the development of new drug target molecules
Life science modelling and simulation gets better
(November 2006)
Accelrys will expand its Discovery Studio software environment with new and enhanced life science modelling and simulation functionality, including pharmacophore modelling and Perl scripting
Chemistry conference circuit hits SW England
(October 2006)
Scientists from across the world have gathered on the 'English Riviera' for south west England's first ever international medicinal and synthetic chemistry conference
Creating diversity and novelty in drug discovery
(September 2006)
Zerenex Molecular has launched a new collection of over 4000 diverse and unique compounds within the Novel Chemical Entities - NCET collection
Dual NMR CryoProbes for small molecule research
(September 2006)
Bruker BioSpin announces the expansion of its new dual-observe carbon/proton NMR CryoProbe product line to higher field strengths
E-Notebook selected by Arena Pharmaceuticals
(September 2006)
CambridgeSoft announced in December 2004 that Arena Pharmaceuticals has licensed CambridgeSoft's electronic notebook, E-Notebook for use by Arena's chemistry group
Chemogenetics enhances receptor-ligand interaction
(August 2006)
Chemogenetic arrays are focused collections of drug-like molecules targeted towards specific receptor families and pre-optimised to increase robustness and bioavailability in man
Electrochemical array measures oxidative stability
(August 2006)
ESA Biosciences reports on a new method using its unique CoulArray II electrochemical detector that enables researchers to perform rapid oxidative stability measurements
Increases in its Wiley journal Impact Factors
(July 2006)
Publisher John Wiley and Sons has announced significant increases in Impact Factors for its journals across the majority of subject areas, according to the Thomson ISI 2005 Journal Citation Reports
Argenta Discovery announces new collaboration
(July 2006)
Argenta Discovery has announced that it has entered into a drug discovery collaboration with AstraZeneca LP
Peakdale expands its capacity and capabilities
(June 2006)
Peakdale Molecular has undertaken significant investment to increase capacity and enhance its capabilities to further support customers' drug discovery challenges
1D NMR Processor gives improved customer service
(May 2006)
Software will be used by edicinal chemistry services provider Kalexsyn to improve efficiency and provide it with added flexibility when dealing with customer requests
Peakdale Molecular launches new website
(May 2006)
Peakdale's full range of products, including Peakexplorer GPCR libraries, Peakfinder chemogenetic arrays for drug discovery, unique intermediates and screening compounds are described
Evaporator optimised for medicinal chemistry
(May 2006)
The DD-4X from Genevac is an affordable, high-performance centrifugal evaporator system designed to handle the wide range of sample types and formats encountered in medicinal chemistry laboratories
Argenta in collaboration with PainCeptor Pharma
(May 2006)
Argenta Discovery, a contract and respiratory drug development company, announced that it has entered into a development collaboration with PainCeptor Pharma
Asia invests in lab tools for medicinal chemistry
(April 2006)
Radleys has announced sales of its parallel chemistry and laboratory reactor products have contributed to a 400% growth in its Asian business during 2004-5 and 2005-6
Scynexis speeds interpretation and dissemination
(April 2006)
Extension of ACD/Labs NMR processing tools has increased efficiency and helped accelerate drug discovery and development at Scynexis
High-throughput pathway-centric data analysis
(April 2006)
InforSense and GeneGo are integrating their technologies to allow researchers to better probe their data and share their work process across different research domains
Volume evaporation to benefit medicinal chemistry
(February 2006)
Genevac has announced further additions to its range of large volume sample holders for its EZ-2 and HT series centrifugal evaporators
Peakdale extends medicinal chemistry services
(February 2006)
Peakdale Molecular announces the extension of its first-class range of medicinal chemistry services to further support its customers' drug discovery programmes
Improving use of synthetic space at Argenta
(February 2006)
Argenta Discovery has implemented the StarFish heating and stirring workstation from Radleys to improve use of synthetic chemistry space in several of its laboratories at its Harlow, UK, headquarters
Two year drug discovery agreement with Novartis
(January 2006)
Up to 18 Argenta scientists will work on the Novartis programme, which centres on the search for new diabetes therapies
Galapagos and CRT in drug discovery collaboration
(January 2006)
Galapagos NV and Cancer Research Technology (CRT), specialists in oncology drug discovery and commercialisation, have entered into a new collaboration in anti-cancer drug discovery research
Biotage signs two deal with Catalyst Technologies
(January 2006)
These two products reduce metal concentrations to low PPM levels facilitating multi-step synthesis and accurate scavenging
Biotage buys rights to novel evaporation system
(January 2006)
Biotage has acquired the exclusive distribution, production and further development rights to Vapourtec's solvent evaporation system, known as the V-10
G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) library complete
(January 2006)
Based around 34 major chemotypes, the Peakexplorer library has been designed to address gaps in commercially available compound collections and to provide greater diversity in drug discovery
£10million boost for medicinal chemistry cancer
(December 2005)
Cancer Research UK's Medicinal Chemistry Training Programme fund its first five projects at UK universities - Cambridge, Newcastle upon Tyne, Edinburgh and St Andrews, Imperial College, and Oxford
Automation of assays in diversified formats
(November 2005)
RTS designs and installs a dual arm, flexible robot screening platform at Merck Sharp And Dohme research laboratories
Screening Europe: provisional agenda released
(November 2005)
To be held 20-22 February 2006 in Prague, this conference will provide a networking opportunity and an event for those keeping abreast of new developments in the field of biomolecular screening
Spanish pharma firm to improve drug discovery
(November 2005)
J Uriach (Barcelona, Spain) plans to improve its current developmental focus on inflammatory diseases through the deployment of the ActivityBase software
Biotage buys Separtis for euro1.4million
(October 2005)
Biotage has acquired Separtis Holding, the Swiss, German and Austrian distributor for many Biotage products, formerly the Argonaut Technologies consumable product range