Drug discovery involves high cost and uncertain outcomes. Only a few companies can take the risk of investing enormous amounts of money into research and testing, only to see undesirable side effects emerge during the final human clinical trials. In many cases, companies are spending millions of dollars to fail during clinical testing.
Now, some new medicines are being tested for safety on specialized cells developed from human pluripotent cell lines. Cell types which are frequently being using within drug discovery applications include heart (cardiomyocytes) and liver cells (hepatocytes), which are the organs where 80% of drug failures occur. [Read more…]
iPS cells have the potential to transform drug discovery by providing physiologically relevant human cells for compound identification, target validation, compound screening, and tool discovery. They can be used to produce a wide variety of mature human cell types, allowing potential drug compounds to be screened in high-throughput systems using human cells.
Leiden and Oss, The Netherlands, May 30th, 2017 – Pluriomics and Pivot Park Screening Centre announced a collaboration to improve Pluriomics’ cardiovascular drug discovery service offerings and to expand Pivot Park Screening Centre’s knowledge about new and innovative assay technologies used to accelerate drug discoveries. Giving Pluriomics access to the Screening Centre’s ultra High Throughput Screening (uHTS) capability, this collaboration will serve Pluriomics’ mission which is to contribute to the efficiency of the drug discovery and development process by reducing the development length, costs and late stage attrition of novel drug candidates.
