Mel Reichman, senior investigator and director of the LIMR Chemical Genomics Center at the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research presents at the chemistry department at Drexel University on November 12, 2009.
Modern drug discovery by high-throughput screening (HTS) begins with testing hundreds of thousands of compounds in biological assays. The confirmed hit rate for typical HTS is less than 0.5%; therefore, 99.5% of the costs of HTS are for generating null data. Orthogonal convolution of compound libraries (OCL) is 500% more efficient than present HTS practice. The OCL method combines 10 compounds per well. An advantage of this method is that each compound is represented twice in two separately arrayed pools. The potential for the approach to better enable academic centers of excellence to validate medicinally relevant biological targets is discussed.
Academic Drug Discovery Accelerated Through Novel Chemical Screening
1. Accelerating Exploration of Chemical and Biological Space for Academic Drug Discovery [email_address] . www.limr.org (see research ServicesâLCGC)
2. Lankenau Institute for Medical Research (LIMR). Wynnewood, PA is an non-profit organization of ~22 independent faculty and other principal investigators who conduct basic and clinical research in cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Founded in 1927. â In medicine, hope springs from researchâ
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7. The COX-2 Story: Timeline 1992: Patent filed 1992: Merck and Searle begin COX-2 program 1998: Celebrex approved, 6 months later Vioxx approved 4/11/2000: U.S. Patent No. 6,048,850 (the '850 patent) issues (âkitchen sinkâ) 4/12/2000: UR initiates suit against Searle (Pfizer) 3/5/2003: UR looses up to Supreme Court October, 2003: NIH Roadmap announced
8. Why UR Lost â Because the inventors here simply failed to take the last critical step of actually isolating a compound, or even developing a process through which one of skill would be directly led to such a compound, this patent involves "little more than a research plan," the court concluded. ( http://pub.bna.com/ptcj/006161.pdf ). â The University had claimed a method requiring, yet provided no written description of, a compound that could inhibit COX-2 and, therefore, the patent was invalid.â
9. "We are the National Institutes of Health, not the National Institutes of Biology," Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D. says. "We need to reengineer how we apply our research to humans." ( http://www.the-scientist.com/2004/2/16/44/1 ) New Roadmap for 21 st Century Translational Research
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