{"id":10267,"date":"2026-06-23T17:42:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artisanbio.com\/?p=10267"},"modified":"2026-06-23T17:43:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:43:49","slug":"the-academic-proposal-for-drug-development-and-clinical-trial-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artisanbio.com\/excelsior\/the-academic-proposal-for-drug-development-and-clinical-trial-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"The academic proposal for drug development and clinical trial integration"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"10267\" class=\"elementor elementor-10267\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2ffc34c8 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2ffc34c8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-66e5b58a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"66e5b58a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div><div>This\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cancer-cell\/abstract\/S1535-6108(25)00110-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cancer-cell\/abstract\/S1535-6108(25)00110-2&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1782313619541000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2V-uNbHgVxOO2SIYFshMXa\">commentary in\u00a0<i>Cancer Cell<\/i>\u00a0by Heffernan and Draetta<\/a>\u00a0argues that advances in biology, biotechnology, data science, and artificial intelligence are transforming cancer research and leading to more effective treatments. New technologies help scientists better understand how tumors develop and respond to drugs. The authors argue that stronger collaboration between academic researchers and the pharmaceutical industry could speed up drug development, improve target identification, and clinical trials, and bring innovative cancer treatments to patients more efficiently, ultimately, improving outcomes for patients and increasing the success rate of cancer therapies.<br \/><br \/><u>Recommendation 1<\/u>: Letting clinical data (patient material) inform drug development, in concert with real time academic-pharma collaborations for drug development<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><u>Recommendation 2<\/u>: Diversifying the drug targets sought by pharma as a field<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><u>Recommendation 3<\/u>: More robust preclinical research, cross-correlated using a variety of techniques<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><u>Our Perspective<\/u>:\u00a0 Real time academic-pharma collaborations for drug development are an initiative of Cancer Research UK, and key advances are occurring (including for pediatric cancers).\u00a0 These collaborations are often driven by common scientific interests and complementary expertises.\u00a0 Groups like CRUK, FNIH and other venture philanthropy-driven organizations can be the impactful catalysts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-53d5d87 e-grid e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"53d5d87\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This\u00a0commentary in\u00a0Cancer Cell\u00a0by Heffernan and Draetta\u00a0argues that advances&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisanbio.com\/excelsior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisanbio.com\/excelsior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisanbio.com\/excelsior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisanbio.com\/excelsior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisanbio.com\/excelsior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artisanbio.com\/excelsior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10272,"href":"https:\/\/artisanbio.com\/excelsior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10267\/revisions\/10272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisanbio.com\/excelsior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisanbio.com\/excelsior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisanbio.com\/excelsior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisanbio.com\/excelsior\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}