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Tackling the complex development landscape of pain medicines

European Pharmaceutical Review

What are the key current challenges in the development of pain medicines? What is the present clinical landscape for pain management medicines, especially chronic pain? Pain management therapies: Pfizer’s migraine medicine recommended by NICE What are three current development trends for pain management treatments?

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MHRA Chief Executive to step down

European Pharmaceutical Review

The Chief Executive of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Dame June Raine, will step down in the Autumn following five years in the role. Her previous role in the agency was as Director of Vigilance and Risk Management of Medicines.

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Leading API biologics (protein and peptide) companies in contract marketing

Pharmaceutical Technology

Victoza, Copaxone, Lupron, Zoladex, Sandostatin, and Somatuline are some of the popularly marketed peptide API therapeutic drugs while more than 600 peptide-based pharmacological leads are being investigated worldwide, across various phases of development. Discover the top API protein and peptide companies in contract marketing.

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Leading innovators in tetrapeptide derivatives for the pharmaceutical industry

Pharmaceutical Technology

Several tetrapeptides are pharmacologically active, showing affinity and specificity for multiple receptors in protein-protein signalling. Amgen develops, manufactures, and markets innovative human medicines to treat patients suffering from serious diseases.

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Leading innovators in pyridine derivatives for the pharmaceutical industry

Pharmaceutical Technology

Pyridine derivatives contain one nitrogen atom in a six-membered aromatic ring and are the most extensively used heterocycles in the field of drug design, due to their promising effect on pharmacological activity, which has led to the discovery of numerous broad-spectrum therapeutic agents.

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Leading innovators in peptide-based inhibitors for cancer treatment

Pharmaceutical Technology

As molecular targeting peptides, anti-cancer peptides penetrate the plasma membrane, nuclear membrane, and mitochondrial membrane of cancer cells, exerting pharmacological activity through various mechanisms (such as inhibiting DNA synthesis and cell division), thus causing apoptosis of cancer cells.

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NICE recommends innovative breast cancer drug

European Pharmaceutical Review

Positive recommendation of talazoparib “is an important advance in expanding treatment options for eligible patients who currently have limited alternative treatments,” Chris Twelves, Director of NIHR Leeds Clinical Research Facility and Professor of Clinical Cancer Pharmacology and Oncology noted.