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The future of drug discovery
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Length:
32 minutes
Released:
Oct 1, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
If we learnt anything from the COVID-19 pandemic it was that, as a society, we owe a huge debt to the scientists around the world that work, day in, day out, on developing medicines to keep us healthy and to fight disease. But how does this process work?
In this episode we catch up with Prof Simon Ward, Director of the Medicines Discovery Institute at Cardiff University.
He tells us about the journey a new medicine has to take, starting from its initial inception in the lab, through various rigorous clinical trials before it can finally be used in clinics and hospitals around the world to save lives.
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In this episode we catch up with Prof Simon Ward, Director of the Medicines Discovery Institute at Cardiff University.
He tells us about the journey a new medicine has to take, starting from its initial inception in the lab, through various rigorous clinical trials before it can finally be used in clinics and hospitals around the world to save lives.
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Released:
Oct 1, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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