Phenotypic Screening Everywhere

The Journal of Biomolecular Screening has a new issue devoted to phenotypic and functional screening approaches, and there looks to be some interesting material in there. The next issue will be Part II (they got so many manuscripts that the intended single issue ran over), and it all seems to have been triggered by the 2011 article in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery that I blogged about here. The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening set up a special interest group for phenotypic drug discovery after that paper came out, and according to the lead editorial in this new issue, it quickly grew to become the largest SIG and one of the most active. The reason for this might well be contained in the graphic shown, which is based on data from Bernard Munos. I'm hoping that those historical research spending numbers have been adjusted for inflation, but I believe that they have (since they were in Munos's original paper). There's an update to the original Swinney and Anthony NRDD paper in this issue, too, and I'll highlight that in another post.
Source: In the Pipeline - Category: Chemists Tags: Drug Industry History Source Type: blogs