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Drug discovery guy interested in medchem, oncology, and new modalities. Dad. My own views.
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🚨 Upcoming SMR drug discovery event! 📣📣📣

🎯 Target ID and validation
🗓️ Oct 24, 2025
📍 Cambridge, UK
🔗 www.smr.org.uk/Meetings/202...

Please share widely!

#DrugDiscovery #TargetValidation #Pharma #Biotech #LifeSciences #SMR
August 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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#chemsky friends, Tony could use a hand

He's a multitalented chemist and project manager - hire him!

#chemjobs 🧪⚗️
February 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Short paper from Ian Churcher and Astex on the changing importance of fsp3 in drug design (hint: We thought it was important, but it's probably not):
rdcu.be/d8bFd
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February 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Clozapine is an antipsychotic drug... right? Yes, but it's also an E3 warhead for UBR5. Check it out: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
pubs.acs.org
January 10, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Discovery of a Keap1 molecular glue for EGFR degradation
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Discovery of a molecular glue for EGFR degradation - Oncogene
Oncogene - Discovery of a molecular glue for EGFR degradation
www.nature.com
December 3, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Want to practise your organic chemistry? Check out Chemdle, a new daily synthesis quiz created by my former colleague, Sam Ellis. chemdle.com
Chemdle
Curated daily chemistry problems. Six attempts to solve the questions, on topics from named reactions to total synthesis.
chemdle.com
October 23, 2024 at 9:05 AM
For molecular glue enthusiasts: Another paper mapping the CRBN neosubstrate landscape, hinting that some targets may not need the classical IMiD degron motif:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Unbiased mapping of cereblon neosubstrate landscape by high-throughput proteomics
Molecular glue degraders (MGDs) are small molecules that harness the ubiquitin-proteasome system to induce degradation of target proteins lacking conventional druggable pockets. Given the challenges i...
www.biorxiv.org
October 21, 2024 at 10:07 AM
Protein degradation gets formal with MrTAC, the new arginine targeting bifunctionals from Lauren Albrecht:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Methylarginine targeting chimeras for lysosomal degradation of intracellular proteins - Nature Chemical Biology
Development of a targeted protein degradation platform, methylarginine targeting chimera (MrTAC), enables arginine methylation-driven degradation of intracellular proteins in lysosomes.
www.nature.com
October 17, 2024 at 7:44 AM