New Business of Wiser Biotechs

There is also great hope that these companies will make new—truly new—drugs. 

High-ThroughputS GREENING Based Drug Discovers Process at Big Pharma 

An appreciation of the assets of a company comes from understanding the processes involved in drug discovery. These have been outlined earlier, but some historical tribute to the origins of a company s major assets merit being emphasized and appreciated, even if one is principally interested in the business as a financial tool. 

Chapter 24 / Assessing Company Assets Look in theLibrary 

The heart of the drug discovery process is the screening of chemical libraries using especially developed assays. The asset of a company can be measured in its breadth and depth of its chemical library and its ability to use the library with carefully constructed assays to identify hits against prospective targets. 

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