The latest episode of the DDW Highlights podcast is now available to listen to below. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates.

In the same week that Phesi revealed that breast cancer is the most studied disease for the fourth year in a row, we have seen a number of breakthroughs in the treatment of solid tumours, both in the early preclinical and later clinical stages of research. 

You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify, Google Play and Apple Podcasts. 

The latest episode of the DDW Highlights podcast is now available to listen to below. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates.

This week we have seen a number of positive announcements related to the early clinical and preclinical development of immunotherapies, including an islet cell therapy for diabetes, an antibody-drug conjugate and a CAR-T therapy for multiple myeloma, and a peptide-drug conjugate and a vaccine for head and neck cancers.

You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify, Google Play and Apple Podcasts. 

The latest episode of the DDW Highlights podcast is now available to listen to and watch below. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates.

Our news round-up at the end of last year focused on drug discovery investment, so it is positive to see that this has also started strong in 2025, with a number of new acquisitions, research partnership agreements and financings to kick off the new year.

You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify, Google Play and Apple Podcasts. 

This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled “Where are the global breakthroughs, opportunities and developments in cancer research?”, which covers three articles written for DDW Volume 24 – Issue 2, Spring 2023 of DDW. They are called: “Global breakthroughs in cancer drug discovery”, “The Achilles’ heel of cancer”, and “Immunotherapy is here to stay”.

At the time of writing in the first article, AstraZeneca UK had appointed David Brocklehurst as Head of Oncology in the UK. I spoke with him about how AstraZeneca is innovating to displace chemotherapy and research areas of significance.

In the second article, Genoscience Pharma’s Philippe Halfon and Eric Raymond share their expertise on targeting the recycling of unsustainable production of palmitoylated cancer-associated proteins. 

In the third article, I spoke with Frédéric Triebel, the French immunologist/oncologist who is best known for his 1990 discovery of the LAG-3 immune control mechanism. Triebel shares insights from his career, expands on his experience with the company he founded, Immutep, and comments on the future of immuno-oncology.

This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled “Innovative approaches to improving drug discovery”, which covers three articles written for DDW Volume 24 – Issue 2, Spring 2023 of DDW. They are called: Post-Covid cognitive impairment: a new target for drug development?, Sitting Down With Dr Harren Jhoti, Astex Pharmaceuticals, and The Nobel Prize winning power of click chemistry.

In the first article, Dr Paula Moran, Dr Kiri Granger, Dr J Mark Treherne, and Dr Jenny Barnett explore the effects of long Covid symptoms and what the opportunities are for drug developers working to treat post-Covid cognitive impairment.

In the second article, Dr Harren Jhoti speaks to Diana Spencer after receiving his OBE, about his career, the UK life sciences sector, fragment-based drug discovery and what the future holds for the industry.

In the third article, José Mejía Oneto, PhD, Founder and CEO at Shasqi, discusses the potential of chemistry to engineer biology to improve the effectiveness of human therapeutics and revolutionise the treatment of disease.

The latest episode of the DDW Highlights podcast is now available to listen to and watch below. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates.

As we approach the end of 2024, it’s great to see that investment in drug discovery is still going strong, with an impressive $300 million raised by AI-focused company SandboxAQ and another significant financing by Ottimo Pharma.

You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify, Google Play and Apple Podcasts. 

The latest episode of the DDW Highlights podcast is now available. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates.

It’s been a big week for cell and gene therapies (CGTs) as the first in vivo BCMA CAR-T candidate reaches the clinic and a new discovery could lead to a gene therapy that reverses a significant cause of stillbirth and premature delivery.

You can listen here, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify, Google Play and Apple Podcasts. 

This episode of the DDW narrated podcast series is titled “New ways to treat cancer”, which covers three articles written for DDW Volume 24 – Issue 2, Spring 2023 of DDW. They are called: “3D Genomics and targeted cancer therapies”, “Democratising proteomics for cancer and beyond”, and Meet the Researcher: John Maher”

In the first article, Anthony Schmitt, PhD, Senior Vice President, Science at Arima Genomics, discusses the applications of 3D genomics in cancer research.

In the second article, DDW Editor Reece Armstrong speaks to Nautilus Co-Founder and Chief Scientist Parag Mallick, about the company’s recent collaboration which aims to uncover the proteins that could be behind a rare and fatal childhood cancer.

In the third article, John Maher, Leucid Bio, told me about his work and offers valuable advice to others in this field.

The latest episode of the DDW Highlights podcast is now available to listen to. DDW’s Megan Thomas narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates.

This week’s leading news stories all shine a light on innovation within drug discovery, including a potential ‘best-in-industry’ weight loss drug, a gold-based compound that shrinks tumours by 82%, and a second-generation CAR-T therapy.

You can listen below, or find The Drug Discovery World Podcast on Spotify, Google Play and Apple Podcasts. 

This episode of the DDW narrated podcast series is titled “The far-reaching impact of drug discovery technology”, which covers three articles written for Volume 24 – Issue 2, Spring 2023 of DDW. They are called: “Accelerating time to market through digitalisation”, “Why digital biomarkers will power tomorrow’s Alzheimer’s therapies”, and “The path to improved safety of gene-based products”.

In the first article, Sascha Fischer Business Development Manager for Automation at Genedata looks at three critical digitalisation components that enable end-to-end lab automation, improve the return on investment (ROI) on instrumentation investments and streamline time-to-market. 

In the second article, Rivka Kreitman, CIO of NeuraLight explores the landscape of therapies for Alzheimer’s and explains why digital biomarkers are key to combatting the disease.

In the third article, Kerstin Pohl, Senior Global Marketing Manager, Gene Therapy & Nucleic Acid at SCIEX, looks at the application of liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry for analysing host cell proteins.