Gileadʹs antiviral drug remdesivir has been catapulted to the limelight as the only FDA-approved treatment of coronavirus Covid-19 for emergency use thus far. On April 29, 2020, preliminary clinical trials indicated that the drug has shown some efficacy. While...
On June 16th, 2020, a team at Oxford University announced that their RECOVERY trials had revealed that a daily treatment of 6 mg of dexamethasone (Decadron, 1) lowered the fatality rate of ventilated COVID-19 patients by up to one third! This was a randomized,...
Gileadʹs antiviral drug remdesivir (Veklury) was approved by the FDA on May 1, 2020 for emergency use in coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) patients after a one-day review. It took the Japanese government much longer to give the nod, seven days, before granting its...
Through our partnership with single cell technology company Berkeley Lights, Inc., ChemPartner offers the innovative Optofluidic based Beacon® platform at our South San Francisco lab. The nano chip technology of the Beacon® platform enables functional characterization...
Supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) is now a well-established tool incorporated into the small molecule drug development strategy for organizations of all types and sizes. Its imprint is almost surely on the history of development of any new advanced chiral drug...
When it comes to finding new chemical matter to engage biological targets, fragment-based screening (FBS) offers a number of advantages over traditional high-throughput screening (HTS). The success of this approach has resulted in a growing list of molecules advancing...
On October 5, 2020, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute announced the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine went to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice “for their discovery of hepatitis C virus (HCV).” The worldwide incidence of HCV...
It is critical to isolate unique isomers for targeted structural design and accurate assay readouts in small molecule development. Chiral intermediate or final compound single enantiomer isolation is necessary for key assays. Where chiral synthesis is challenging or...
A recently published article entitled Ex vivo engineered human plasma cellsexhibit robust protein secretion and long-term engraftment in vivo1 shows that a subset of in vitro cultured plasma B cells can take on characteristics of long-lived natural plasma B cells. Due...