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Fight cancer with phones
Hit snooze to support World Cancer Day
This World Cancer Day, follow in the steps of Star Wars actor John Boyega and download the DreamLab App to conduct cancer research whilst your sleep.
Stories tagged with 'Drug discovery'
Designer drugs
Elephantiasis and river blindness could be eliminated faster with new molecule
A new potential drug molecule could reduce treatment times for two widespread diseases from weeks to days, ultimately helping to eliminate them.
AI with Heart
Imperial and Bayer to accelerate drug discovery for heart conditions using AI
A new industrial partnership will use artificial intelligence (AI) to speed up drug discovery.
Chink in the armour
Breast cancer drug could create chink in the armour of pancreatic cancer
The well-known drug tamoxifen could exploit a weakness in the physical ‘scaffolds’ around tumours, according to research led by Imperial.
Congratulations Anna!
Dr Anna Barnard awarded prestigious Sir Henry Dale fellowship
Congratulations Anna!
Pharma star
Expert to help improve drugs for patients and environment with Academy Chair
Professor Amparo Galindo has been named Imperial’s Lilly/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Pharmaceutical Molecular Systems.
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targeting tumours
Breakthrough drug shows early promise for multiple myeloma
A small clinical trial has shown that a new drug has promise for targeting tumours in patients with an aggressive type of blood cancer.
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HARMFUL HOARDERS
What happens when our cells stop cleaning up after themselves?
A cell needs to get rid of its waste proteins effectively in order to function – but what happens to our bodily tissue when this system breaks down?
DATA DISCOVERY
Big data approach to drug discovery leads to new epilepsy target
A newly-developed computational framework for drug discovery has been used to identify a therapeutic target for epilepsy.
GUTSY APPROACH
WHO World No Tobacco Day: why the key to quitting smoking could lie in our guts
A team of researchers at Imperial College London is investigating whether gut hormones could play a vital role in helping people to quit smoking.
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