Pharmacology/ Therapeutics News for July 2018

Pharmacology/ Therapeutics News Archive

New system can identify drugs to target ‘undruggable’ enzymes critical in many diseases New system can identify drugs to target ‘undruggable’ enzymes critical in many diseases

A new drug discovery system allows scientists to specifically target members of an important family of enzymes, called phosphatases, which were previously considered mostly “undruggable”.

PureTech Health Collaborator Publishes in Journal Nature Regarding New Insights into Key Role of Brain Lymphatics in Alzheimer’s and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases PureTech Health Collaborator Publishes in Journal Nature Regarding New Insights into Key Role of Brain Lymphatics in Alzheimer’s and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases

Related intellectual property exclusively licensed to PureTech Health and being advanced as part of growing internal research and development division

Researchers are one step closer to developing eye drops to treat age-related macular degeneration (AMD)

Scientists at the University of Birmingham, UK, are one step closer to developing an eye drop that could revolutionise treatment for age-related macular degeneration (AMD).