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Accelerating Lead Generation: Emerging technologies and strategies


Published Date: June 2009
Published By: Business Insights
Page Count: 161
Order Code: R162-950
 
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Accelerating Lead Generation: Emerging technologies and strategies
Executive Summary
Introduction
Identifying hits: library design, virtual screening and fragment based drug discovery
Innovations in biological assay development
ADME and toxicology in lead generation
Lead generation strategies in the pharma industry
R&D models, innovation and future success of lead generation
Chapter 1 Introduction
The drug discovery process: defining lead generation
Hit finding and verification
Hit optimization
Lead optimization
Criteria for potential lead compounds
Chemistry
Pharmacology
Absorption, Metabolism, Excretion, Distribution (ADME) and
Toxicity
Chapter 2 Identifying hits: library design, virtual screening and fragment based drug discovery
Summary
Introduction
Hit to lead - identifying possible structures
Compound selection
Physiochemical properties
Chemical optimization and modification of hits
Engineering novelty
Beyond HTS - alternative methods for identifying hits
Fragment-based drug discovery
Companies involved in FBDD
Case study: deCODE chemistry & biostructures Inc
Case study: Zenobia Therapeutics
Can FBDD generate successful new drugs?
Technology improvements driving FBDD
Improving x-ray crystallography
Improvements in NMR spectroscopy for FBDD
High concentration biological assays
Improving biophysical methods
Improving fragment library design
Chemistry-based methods
HTS vs FBDD
Virtual screening
Target based virtual screening
Case study: Epix Pharmaceuticals’
When to use virtual screening
Target based virtual screening: challenges
Ligand based screening
Commercial virtual screening platforms
Conclusions
Chapter 3 Innovations in biological assay development
Summary
Introduction
Improving high throughput screening
Identifying valid hits
A quantitative approach to primary screening
Compound management and quality assessment
Dispensing
Informatics and data analysis
Improving in vitro assays for HTS
Surface plasmon resonance
Isothermal titration calorimetry and nanocalorimetry
Back-Scattering Interferometry
Differential scanning fluorimetry
High throughput Mass Spectrometry
Bio-layer interferometry
Innovations in cell-based assay technology
Automated confocal microscopy methods
Flow cytometry
Laser scanning cytometry
Label-free cell-based screens
Photonic crystal biosensors
Dynamic mass redistribution
Impedance-based whole cell biosensors
Other cell-based assays
Reverse arrays
Enzyme Fragment Complementation
HCS and SAR
Novel cell types and cultures
In vivo methods in lead generation
Zebrafish
Whole animal imaging and microscopy
Conclusions
Chapter 4 ADME and toxicology in lead generation
Summary
Introduction
Assessing ADME characteristics
Oral absorption
P-Glycoprotein interactions
Plasma protein binding
Clearance
Metabolic stability
Selectivity and off-target effects
Solubility
Toxicology at the lead generation stage
In silico structure-toxicity relationships
Chemoinformatic methods
Toxicogenomics
High content screening
Zebrafish
Whole animal imaging
Determining mutagenic and clastogenic potential
Measuring HERG liability
Investigating CYP inhibition and induction
Conclusions
Chapter 5 Lead generation strategies in the pharma industry
Summary
Introduction
Lead generation teams
Case studies
Bayer
Boehringer Ingelheim
Millennium Pharmaceuticals (Takeda)
Conclusions
Chapter 6 R&D models, innovation & future success of lead generation
Summary
Introduction
R&D models: influence on lead generation
R&D models
Outsourcing and offshoring
Dealing with academia
Pharma collaboration - ‘Co-opetition’
Innovation and the future
Targets and HTS
Focus on RNA
Focus on lead optimization
Nanochemistry - returning chemistry to its central role in drug discovery
Lead generation now and in the future
Chapter 7 Appendix
Primary research methodology
Acknowledgments
Glossary
Index
Bibliography
List of Figures
Figure 1.1: Pharma industry productivity decline (1999-2008)
Figure 1.2: Patent losses occurring between 2008-2014
Figure 1.3: The drug discovery process
Figure 1.4: Example of a lead generation workflow
Figure 1.5: Technologies involved in lead generation
Figure 2.6: Use of structural information in structure-based drug design
Figure 2.7: Examples of the chemical structures of compounds discovered using FBDD
Figure 2.8: ZoBio’s target immobilized NMR spectroscopy method for fragment-based drug discovery
Figure 3.9: Areas of innovation in high throughput screening
Figure 3.10: Acoustic droplet ejection
Figure 3.11: Attributes required of software for HTS data storage and analysis
Figure 3.12: Kinetic characterization of 5 lead series using SPR (Biacore)
Figure 3.13: Bio-Layer Interferometry from ForteBio
Figure 3.14: Advantages of cell-based screening in HTS
Figure 3.15: Principle of detection: cell based assays with the Epic system from Corning
Figure 3.16 Principle of the EFC assay for a biochemical target: HitHunter from DiscoveRx
Figure 4.17: ADME and toxicology data available in high throughput assays
Figure 4.18: The Safety Intelligence Program from BioWisdom
Figure 4.19: Examples of assertions in the Safety Intelligence Program from BioWisdom
Figure 4.20: A typical toxicogenomics workflow in the pharma industry
Figure 5.21: Key innovations in lead generation technologies
Figure 5.22: Key activities of medicinal chemists during lead generation
Figure 5.23: ADME-Tox traffic light criteria in use at Bayer
Figure 5.24: Discovery-Assays-By-Stage paradigm of Millennium Pharmaceuticals
Figure 6.25: The microreactor-based lead discovery system
List of Tables
Table 2.1: Fragment-based drug discovery: the pros and cons
Table 2.2 Techniques used to assess fragment binding for FBDD
Table 2.3: Examples of companies with product pipelines derived from FBDD
Table 2.4: Examples of compounds discovered using FBDD
Table 2.5: Rule of Three criteria for a fragment library
Table 2.6: Examples of companies offering fragment libraries and collections for FBDD
Table 2.7: Examples of companies offering software for virtual screening
Table 3.8: Examples of companies providing software for HTS information storage and analysis 71
Table 3.9: Emerging technologies for high throughput screening
Table 3.10: A comparison of free-solution, label-free molecular interaction techniques
Table 3.11: Examples of recent collaborations between stem cell companies and big pharma for the use of stem cells in drug discovery research
Table 3.12: Advantages and disadvantages of zebrafish for compound screening
Table 3.13: Companies offering zebrafish screening products and services
Table 3.14: Advantages of molecular imaging of whole animals for preclinical studies
Table 3.15: Half lives of important positron emitting isotopes
Table 4.16: Examples of contract laboratories offering HCA cytotoxicity screening
Table 4.17: Examples of higher throughput or miniaturized versions of the Ames test
Table 6.18: Recent examples of academic drug discovery funding by big pharma

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