Chemistry is still cool
April 7, 2015Looking for new customers in France, Belgium, United Kingdom, and other European countries, I realized that the number of pharmaceutical companies…
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Outrageous
March 31, 2015Copper-Catalyzed Selective Arylations of Benzoxazoles with Aryl Iodides Still trying to decide if this is a joke or not. Any help…
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Who had come in first ?
February 19, 2015Being French, living in Spain and working in English I read different news items from different countries in several languages. Recently,…
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Beware the Binding Pose
February 12, 2015One of my favourites blogs, which I have mentioned in previous posts, is In the Pipeline, written by Derek Lowe. He…
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Cancer, Bad Luck and Press Releases…
January 26, 2015Everything started with a headline: “Most cancers are caused by bad luck – not bad judgement, says study” (Independent), and another:…
Read More2014 in Numbers
January 19, 2015As is our tradition, here you have our figures about projects and products of 2014. Compiling this info takes only a…
Read MoreAre cars becoming more innovative than drugs?
December 12, 2014For the first time in 10 years there is no pharmaceutical company among the three biggest R&D spenders! According to the…
Read MoreLorcaserin approved
June 29, 2012Well, it is the first anti-obesity drug approved by the FDA in 13 years (last one was Roche’s Orlistat, marketed as Xenical…
Read MoreGalChimiApplus
December 1, 2011During the last CPhI in Frankfurt we officially presented our joint venture with Applus+ LGAI, christening it GalChimiApplus. This collaboration will…
Read MoreNumber crunching
October 1, 2011The review selected for this issue is in fact what the J. Med. Chem. calls a ‘Perspective’ paper. To summarize, it…
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