The Drug Discovery World Podcast

The latest episode of the  DDW Highlights Podcast is now available to listen to below. DDW's Bruno Quinney narrates five key stories of the previous week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry news. Last week, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded to three scientists for their discovery on regulatory T cells. Elsewhere, AI use continues to rise in pharma and bio...

DDW's Bruno Quinney narrates key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates.  This week's news is led by the agreement by Genmab to acquire Merus, an announcement which could have important ramifications in cancer research. Scientists have also made breakthroughs in pancreatic cancer, as well as in the understanding of Covid 'brain fog'. 

In the  In Conversation With   series, a part of the free DDW podcast, DDW speaks with members of the drug discovery industry about their work and how it helps turn science into business.      In this episode, Megan Thomas is in conversation with Thibaud Portal, Founder and COO of Alys Pharmaceuticals, a biotech launched in 2024 with a landmark $100 million seed round. The conversation explores th...

The latest episode of the  DDW Highlights Podcast  is now available to listen to below. DDW's Bruno Quinney narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates. In this week's news, results from a clinical trial offer hope for the first time that Huntington's disease can be slowed. Elsewhere, new synthetic kidneys could be 'revolutionary' tools f...

The latest episode of the DDW Highlights Podcast is now available to listen to below. DDW's Bruno Quinney narrates five key stories of the week to keep DDW subscribers up-to-date on the latest industry updates. In this week's news, AstraZeneca has halted its £200 million research investment in the UK. Elsewhere, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has fast-tracked a gene therapy, CAR-T thera...

In the  In Conversation With   series, a part of the free DDW podcast, DDW speaks with members of the drug discovery industry about their work and how it helps turn science into business.      In this episode, Megan Thomas is in conversation with Emma Johnson, CEO of Essential Pharma, about the company's move into clinical development, with the acquisition of Renaissance Pharma's immunotherapy ass...

In the  In Conversation With   series, a part of the free DDW podcast, DDW speaks with members of the drug discovery industry about their work and how it helps turn science into business.      In this episode, Megan Thomas is in conversation with Joel Stanley, CEO of Ajna Biosciences. We explore the promise and challenges of botanical drugs, focusing on Ajna Biosciences' approach to developing the...

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. The news this week has emphasised the importance of shared knowledge and expertise to the development of new drugs, whether that is through research collaboration agreements or mergers and...

This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled "Strategies and challenges in therapeutic development and lab practice", which covers three articles written for DDW Volume 24 – Issue 4, Fall 2023. They are called: " The inner workings of antibiotics ", " Targeting advances in immunotherapies ", and " The considerations for building sustainable labs in pharma ". In the first art...

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 has seen some incredible advances in immunotherapy, including the development of a therapy that combines natural killer and CAR-T cells, and an off-the-shelf cancer vaccine that...

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 week that the US Department of Health and Human Services cancelled multiple contracts investigating mRNA vaccines , a number of other clinical trials have made the headlines .   You...

In the  In Conversation With   series, a part of the free DDW podcast, DDW speaks with members of the drug discovery industry about their work and how it helps turn science into business.      In this episode, Megan Thomas is in conversation with Steve Ruston, CEO of Persica Pharmaceuticals. Ruston has been CEO since the company was founded and has been a key player in developing Persica's non-opi...

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. With the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) taking place this week in Toronto, Canada, there have been a number of updates in the neuroscience drug discovery field. Yo...

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. Following the recent news that the  FDA rejected Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical's gene therapy due to manufacturing concerns, manufacturing has dominated the headlines this week, particularly s...

In the  In Conversation With   series, a part of the free DDW podcast, DDW speaks with members of the drug discovery industry about their work and how it helps turn science into business.      In this episode, Megan Thomas is in conversation with Thijs Spoor, CEO of the radiopharma company Perspective Therapeutics. The conversation covers how Perspective is advancing alpha-emitting radiopharmaceut...

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's news highlights reflect the incredible levels of innovation and investment, but also the hurdles to overcome, in developing gene therapies – breakthrough treatments in many gen...

This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled "Innovative applications of AI in drug discovery", which covers two articles written for DDW Volume 24 – Issue 4, Fall 2023. They are called: " Decoding diseases: The AI renaissance in clinical trials " and " Advancing antibody discovery with AI ".   In the first article, Deepika Khedekar, Associate Centralized Clinical Lead at IQ...

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 our news highlights focus on the drug discovery in the European Union, including some new regulatory approvals from the European Commission, advancements from Netherlands-based a...

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 significant news this week, the FDA in the US has removed red tape that limits which centres could give CAR-T therapy, in a move to improve access to the therapies. The round-up this ti...

This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled " UK Spotlight: Innovation and discovery", which covers three articles written for DDW Volume 24 – Issue 4, Fall 2023. They are called: " Where is the drug discovery expertise happening in the UK? ", " From the top: Dr Martin Main, Medicines Discovery Catapult ", and " Meet the Researcher: Molly Stevens, Oxford University and Impe...

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. As we announce the  DDW 'Creating cures' programme at SLAS2026 , the week's news highlights emphasise the importance of advanced technologies to the success of drug discovery, including di...

In the  In Conversation With   series, a part of the free DDW podcast, DDW speaks with members of the drug discovery industry about their work and how it helps turn science into business.      In this episode, Megan Thomas is in conversation with Professor Jonathan Kagan, a Harvard immunology professor and director of Basic Research at Boston Children's Hospital. He's also the founder of Corner Th...

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 DDW shared  expert insights from the 2025 ASCO annual meeting , there have been several significant developments in oncology drug discovery, including new therapy options...

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's round-up highlights the vital role of genetics in drug discovery, including new data for an Alzheimer's gene therapy, the discovery of a genetic target for rejuvenation therapi...

This is the latest episode of the free DDW narrated podcast, titled "Innovative uses for biomarkers in drug discovery", which covers three articles written for DDW Volume 24 – Issue 4, Fall 2023. They are called: " Advances in neuroscience drug discovery ", " Putting human data at the centre of drug discovery ", and " The era of precision neuroscience ". In the first article, Lu Rahman looks at ne...