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To: Jongmans who wrote ()6/6/2000 6:46:00 AM
From: sim1   of 36
 
From Signals... Pharma's New Vision

One of the main take-home messages from Allicense 2000, which convened in Basel
Switzerland May 2-4, was this: Thanks to the tremendous amount of data pouring forth
from genome sequencing efforts, the traditional bottleneck in drug discovery -- not enough new targets -- has been eliminated. But it hasn't disappeared, it's just moved, for now it's a question of picking the right target as a drug development candidate.

It's too early to tell whether the abundance of new targets will have a measurable impact on overall R&D productivity. The major pharmaceutical houses are still shifting gears:
Through their alliances with biotech firms and universities as well as their own in-house
initiatives, they're in the process of integrating entirely new discovery technologies -- from functional assays to ultra-high throughput screens -- into their drug development programs. <snip>

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