Drug Discovery

  • New Drug Represents Breakthrough in Hepatitis C Treatment
    The drug telaprevir (Incivek) provides a dramatic improvement in the treatment of the most common form of hepatitis C infection, says an international team of investigators led by Dr. Ira M. Jacobson of New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Their ...More
    June 23, 2011
    Posted in News
  • New Device Promises Safer Way to Deliver Powerful Drugs Against Infections
    A new drug-delivery device designed and constructed by Jie Chen, Thomas Cesario and Peter Rentzepis promises to unlock the potential of photosensitive chemicals to kill drug-resistant infections and perhaps cancer tumors as well. Photosensitive chemicals are molecules that ...More
    April 6, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Scientists Searching for Antibiotics to Kill TB
    Scientists are collaborating on a new international research project to identify antibiotics that can kill tuberculosis and fight resistant strains. "We want to accelerate the discovery of new compounds that can be turned into effective drugs," says professor Tony Maxwell ...More
    March 11, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Drug to Fight Tumors Also Battles Influenza and Possibly Other Viruses
    There's new hope for flu-free winters in the years to come thanks to a new discovery by researchers who found that a drug called DMXAA, originally developed as anti-tumor agent, enhances the ability of flu vaccines to ward off this deadly virus. A new research report ...More
    February 28, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Team Hopes to Trim Years Off Development Time of New Antibiotics
    Eliminating tens of thousands of manual lab experiments, two University of Houston (UH) professors are working toward a method to cut the development time of new antibiotics. While current practices typically last for more than a decade, a computerized modeling system being ...More
    February 11, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Communication Pathways Within Proteins May Yield New Drug Targets to Stop Superbugs
    A School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis biophysicist has developed a new method to identify communication pathways connecting distant regions within proteins. With this tool, Andrew J. Rader, PhD, assistant professor of physics, has ...More
    January 31, 2011
    Posted in News
  • IDRI Awarded Grant from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to Identify Candidates for Novel TB Drugs
    The Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI) today announced it has received a multi-million dollar grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for "Chemical genomics for the identification of targets and leads in tuberculosis." The purpose of the grant is to ...More
    January 14, 2011
    Posted in News
  • 100 Medicines and Vaccines in Development for HIV/AIDS
    America’s biopharmaceutical research companies are working on 100 new medicines and vaccines to treat and prevent HIV/AIDS and related conditions, according to a new report from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). Although scientists have made ...More
    December 1, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Detailing Influenza's Structure for Drug Targeting
    Beating the flu is already tough, but it has become even harder in recent years – the influenza A virus has mutated so that two antiviral drugs don't slow it down anymore. Reporting their findings in the journal Science, researchers from Florida State and Brigham Young move ...More
    October 21, 2010
    Posted in News
  • New Drug Could Help Stop the Spread of Disease During a Cough
    What if there was a drug that could completely eliminate airborne disease transmission that occurs when someone coughs? Researchers at the University of Alberta believe they have found a way to achieve this. The idea behind this work came from Malcolm King and his research ...More
    September 22, 2010
    Posted in News
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