Medicinal chemists often face cardiotoxicity issues linked to inhibition of the hERG (human ether-à-go-go-related gene) channel. In a recent Coffee Chat, Drug Hunter CEO Dennis Hu, Director for Industry Research and Relations Dennis Koester, and Senior Scientific Editor Matt Hesse discussed ways to reduce hERG risks during lead optimization. They described approaches to reduce hERG affinity while retaining on-target potency and discussed case studies of drug programs that used these strategies to eliminate their hERG issues.

In this Flash Talk, Katarina Leftheris highlights how advances in our understanding of ADME requirements, screening technologies, formulations development and computational modeling helped macrocycles back on the center stage of the industry.

As part of our Flash Talk webinar series, we present a PDF of Katarina Letheris'slide deck, entitled "Advancing Macrocycles in Drug Discovery". Check out the recording of the talk on our Drug Hunter YouTube channel.

As part of our Flash Talk webinar series, we present a PDF of Nicholas Meanwell's slide deck entitled "The Chemist's Playbook: Impactful Bioisosteres for Modern Drug Design". Check out the recording of the talk on our Drug Hunter YouTube channel.

In this Flash Talk, Yoshihiro Ishihara discussed the beneficial effects of chloro and methoxy substituents on intermolecular interactions, as well as the unique advantages and disadvantages of employing these substituents in drug discovery.

As part of our Flash Talk webinar series, we present a PDF of Yoshihiro Ishihara's slide deck and full text questions and answers from his talk, entitled "Roles of the Chloro and Methoxy Groups in Drug Discovery." Check out the recording of the talk on our Drug Hunter YouTube channel.

As part of our Coffee Chat webinar series, our team (Lew Pennington, Matt Hesse, and Dennis Koester), explored Drug Hunter’s patent highlight feature and shared their favorite molecules and notable stories from recent patent filings. we present a PDF of the slide deck. Check out the recording of the talk on our Drug Hunter YouTube channel.

Functional groups that medicinal chemists don't encounter regularly often face greater scrutiny compared to more common ones. In his Flash Talk, Gilles Ouvry challenges these biases and presents data on four uncommon functional groups that required extra convincing to gain acceptance. Here we supply a PDF download of his slides for our members.