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Small Molecules of the Month – Mar. 2021

The March 2021 edition of Drug Hunter‘s Small Molecules of the Month series contains several small molecule clinical candidates as well as pre-clinical small molecules with interesting structures or mechanisms. Among the highlights are LSN3318839, a molecular glue that binds both GLP-1R receptor its endogenous GLP peptide, a P-gp inhibitor Read more…

By Dennis Hu, 5 days5 days ago
Drug Discovery

Small Molecules of the Month – Feb. 2021

February was a packed month for interesting molecules – there were nearly 20 molecules we thought about including in this list but couldn’t fit them all. There are several clinical candidates this month including mobocertinib, an exon 20 mutant inhibitor that was recently given Breakthrough Therapy Designation by the FDA. Read more…

By Dennis Hu, 1 month1 month ago
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Small Molecule of the Year – 2020

We asked the global drug discovery community to vote on their favorite molecule from 2020, and the results are in. The community’s 2020 choice for Small Molecule of the Year is GS-6207 (lenacapavir), the awe-inspiring HIV capsid inhibitor published by Gilead Sciences in a 2020 issue of Nature. The GSK Read more…

By Dennis Hu, 2 months2 months ago
Drug Discovery

Small Molecules of the Month – Jan. 2021

For the first installment of Drug Hunter’s “Small Molecules of the Month” series in 2021, we have a Kissei SGLT2 inhibitor whose lead was a metabolite found in mouse urine, a GSK integrin inhibitor that was found to trigger lysosomal degradation, and the first non-sugar OGA inhibitor derived from a Read more…

By Dennis Hu, 3 months2 months ago
Case Studies

A Gram-Daily Aldehyde for Anemia: Voxelotor

On Feb. 16, 12:00PM PST, I’ll be hosting Dr. Mira Pochon, Staff Scientist and Head of Translational Biology at Global Blood Therapeutics, for a PBSS/CLSA webinar on one of my favorite 2019 drug approvals, voxelotor (GBT440).  Mira has been with GBT since it’s early days in 2011, and will be Read more…

By Dennis Hu, 3 months2 months ago
Drug Discovery

2020 Small Molecules of the Year

In 2020 the Drug Hunter site highlighted >150 “molecules of the month” whose structures or stories were typically published for the first time. They were selected from thousands of research articles, published by leading institutions around the world. It was incredibly hard to narrow down the selection to just one Read more…

By Dennis Hu, 3 months2 months ago

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