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About this Author
Derek Lowe
Derek Lowe, an Arkansan by birth, got his BA from Hendrix College and his PhD in organic chemistry from Duke before spending time in Germany on a Humboldt Fellowship on his post-doc. He's worked for several major pharmaceutical companies since 1989 on drug discovery projects against schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, diabetes, osteoporosis and other diseases. To contact Derek email him directly: derekb.lowe@gmail.com Twitter: Dereklowe

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In the Pipeline

Alpha Index
" $ ' ( . 1 2 9 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
A "Things I Won't Work With" Request
A 2.3 Billion Dollar Attention-Getter
A 200-Proof Shot of Medicinal Chemistry
A Bad Assay: Better Than None?
A Birthday Worth Noting
A Bit More Garage Biotech
A Blogroll Update
A Break, Whether I Felt Like It Or Not
A Breath of Fresh Air from Fuji
A Brief Note on Current Events
A Brief and Not At All Intemperate Evaluation of the Current Literature
A Capacious Rat-Hole Indeed
A Cautionary Tale
A Certain Tension in the Air
A Chemical Wish List
A Clean Lab is A Happy Lab
A Cold-Weather Recipe, By Request: Onion Soup
A Complete Diversion: Purple Compounds
A Couple of Days Off
A Cure for the Common Cold? Don't. . .Ah, Hold Your Breath
A DPP-IV Compound Makes It Through
A Database of Side Effects
A Day With All the Bark Left On It
A Day at the Rota-Vap
A Day in the Life of Peter Rost
A Day in the Life: Dichloromethane and Peanut Butter
A Deuterium Deal
A Dish Best Served Cold
A Drug's Target, Finally
A Farewell to Tin
A Few More Victories Like This, And We Will Be Undone
A Few Questions For My Fellow Pharma Chemists
A Few Words
A Fire, And Its Flames
A First Step Toward A New Form of Life
A Former Pfizer Executive Finally Trashes Pfizer's Strategy
A Friday Book Recommendation
A Friday Linkfest
A GSK/Sirtris Wrap-Up
A Good Day's Work
A Google Oddity
A Green Fluorescent Nobel Prize
A Landmark In Clinical Trial Data Interpretation
A Last-Ditch Effort - Or Is It?
A Law of the Lab: Yields and Variations
A Lengthy Day
A Less-Than-Subtle Plan
A Little Ambiguity Would Be Welcome Right About Now
A Long Tail Indeed
A Look Inside the Compound Collections
A Look Into the Future?
A Look Under the Hood
A Man, A Book, and a Plan. Several Plans.
A Mechanism for Thimerosal
A Med-Chem Book Recommendation
A Meditation on Solvents
A Modest Literature Proposal
A Mystery Gas?
A Natural Wonder Drug - Now What?
A New Book on Chemical Patents
A New Cancer Target - Maybe
A New FDA?
A New Form of Hype, uh, Life?
A New HIV Therapy. Yawn?
A New Route to Tamiflu?
A New Way to Approve Drugs
A Nobel For Palladium Couplings, At Last
A Nobel for Ribosome Structure
A Nobel for Telomerase
A Note About Identity Spoofing
A Note to Andy Grove
A Piece of the Action
A Pile of Malaria Leads For the Taking
A Post I've Been Looking Forward to For Months
A Postdoc's Lament
A Quasicrystal Nobel Prize
A Question For the Audience
A Question For the Crowd
A Quick And Nerdy Question
A Quick Glassware Question
A Quick One While He's Away
A Quick Quiz (Re: Antibacterials)
A Quick Tour Through the Mudhole
A Quick Tour Through the Mudhole
A Race to the Bottom
A Radiation Chart to Clip and Save
A Rake's Progress
A Re-Org at Novartis
A Real Genetic Headscratcher
A Real-World Can O' Worms
A Request From Biology
A Resveratrol Research Scandal. Oh, Joy.
A Rough Business
A Salute
A Science Writing Award
A Scientific Aptitude Test?
A Scientist's Resolutions
A Scorched-Earth Policy at Wyeth's Princeton Site?
A Sensitive Guy
A Shortage of Cancer Drugs?
A Shot Across the Bow
A Smelly Riddle
A Solution, Courtesy of the MIT Faculty
A Spin of the Wheel
A Spray-Painted Crystal Ball
A Startlingly Good Leukemia Trial
A Steeplechase of Dead Horses
A Storm in a Teacup
A Strange Compound, In Strange Places
A Synthetic Genome; A New Species
A Tale of Two Trials
A Technical Question
A Tiny Little Presentation Tip
A Treadmill Pill?
A Trial Too Far
A Twisty Road
A Vaccine Against Putting on Weight?
A Vioxx Bomb Drops. Or Does It?
A Visit To Academia
A Week in the Life
A Whistleblowing Record
A Word to the Wise
A Word to the Wise About TGN1412
ACC2: Great Metabolic Target, Or Total Bust?
ACS Med Chem Letters
ACS Meetings
ACS Survey - Or Something Else?
AGI-1067: Dead or Alive?
ASCO Fever
Abbott Cuts the Drug Business Loose
Abbott's Cutting Jobs
About Time
Abstract Abstracts
Academia and Industry, Suing Each Other
Academia in Summertime
Academic Drug Discovery: A Survey
Access To Science
Access to Phase I Drugs: A Constitutional Right?
Acorda and Ampyra
Acronym-Fest: GSK and Its DPUs
Actually, It's Everything Else That's Off-Topic
Adam Smith Goes Pharmaceutical
After Natural Selection's Through With You
Again, What's It Worth to You?
Against Panic
Ah, Glassware
Ah, It's Fine. Just Send the Darn Thing Out Already.
Ah, Marketing
Ah, Politics
Ah, Remember Those Days? How Will We Remember These?
Ah, Rumors
Ah, the Heck With the Error Bars
Ahem: "Sell Gobs of Dope"?
Airplanes and Chemicals
Akt and Mek, But Not PDQ
Alas, Dendreon
Albany Molecular Cuts - In the US, Anyway
Alex Tabarrok on Me-Too Drugs
Alexander Would Have Understood
All Bets Are Now Officially Off
All Fixed Up
All Natural
All Of You Industrial Scientists: Out Of the Room
All Quiet on the Genzyme Front?
All Sorts of Holes
All The Fat Cells You'll Ever Have - Sort Of
All Those Worthless Papers
All the Myriad Ways
All the Not-So-Myriad Ways
Alli: "Underwhelming"
Allons Pharmas de la Patrie!
Alnylam Cuts Back Hard
Altermune - Real Stuff or Not?
Aluminum: Friend or Foe?
Always Read the Fine Print
Alzheimer's Markers and Collaboration
Alzheimer's Vaccine Refuses to Die
Alzheimer's and Amyloid, Again
Alzheimer's: A Report From the Front
Alzheimer's: Down With Amyloid?
Alzheimer's: Extracting Data From Failed Trials
Alzheimer's: The News Is Not Getting Better
Am I Blue?
Amazing Stuff! Guess Where It's From. . .
Amgen's New Patent: Explanations, Anyone?
Amgen: Brace Yourselves
Amgen: The Pythian Oracle Laughs Again
Amyloid in Trouble
An Alternative Prescription From Chopra, Roy, and Weil
An Alzheimer's Compound Runs Into Big Trouble
An Antiviral Example
An Economist Who Gets It
An Enzyme Inhibitor You Have Never, Ever, Considered
An Era Begins
An Expensive Way Back for Celebrex
An Experiment in Progress?
An Eye For the Numbers
An HIV Drug. Or A Gout Drug? Or Both. . .
An Impressive Nanolist of Nanocitations
An Innocent Question
An NMR Poster
An Off-Topic Ramble
An Outsourcing Blast
An Unethical Clinical Trial
An Update
Anarchy in the EU
Ancient Chemistry Comes Back to Life?
Ancient Metals
And 0.04 Molar in Eye of Newt. . .
And All For a Little Money
And Always Keep Ahold of Nurse, For Fear of Finding Something Worse
And Another Thing
And Another Thing. . .
And Another Thing. . .
And I Still Have Some of Those Shirts
And It Goes Like This
And It Goes Like This!
And Now A Word. . .
And Now Some Politics
And Now for Something Completely Different
And Now, the Retractome
And One Was Just Right?
And So, 2011
And Speaking of Discovering Things. . .
And That Is That
And The Winner Is. . .
And Thee, O Time
And While We're On the Subject - Mercury?
And While We're Talking About Industry-Sponsored Studies. . .
And You Thought Exubera Was A Disaster Before
And a Quick Political Note
And on the Carl Icahn Front. . .
Andrew Witty's Advice
Andy Grove's Idea For Opening Up Clinical Trials
Andy Grove: Rich, Famous, Smart and Wrong
Aneuploidy, or What're A Few Chromosomes, More or Less?
Ang. Chem. Gets Weirder Every Day
Angell's Book
Angiogenesis Inhibitors: Helping or Hurting?
Angiotensin Receptor Blockers and Cancer: For Real?
Animal Models: How High to Set the Bar?
Animal Rights, You Say?
Animal Studies: Are Too Many Never Published At All?
Animal Testing: A View From the Labs
Anonymity?
Another Alzheimer's Compound Goes Down
Another Blogroll Update
Another Chemistry Prize for Biology
Another Cholesterol Medication Goes Down (Or Does It)?
Another Cold-Weather Recipe: Chicken Pot Pie
Another Iron Reaction Hits The Mat
Another Law of the Lab
Another New Med-Chem Journal
Another Obesity Drug? Not Likely.
Another Pop Quiz!
Another Proposal For the Scientific Literature
Another Sack of Raving Nonsense Is Slated For Publication
Another Set of Eyes
Another Shot
Another Shot Across the Bow
Another Shot at Cancer
Another Snow Day
Another Stuffed Shirt
Another Take on the Munos Paper
Another Thing We Don't Know
Another Thing You'd Think Would Be Simple
Another Two-Person Drug Company
Another Zero-Palladium Delusion?
Anticoagulants, One After Another
Antidepressants: Depressing News or Not?
Antioxidants and Cancer: Backwards?
Antipsychotics: Do They Work For A Completely Different Reason?
Antisoma's Phase III Disaster
Antivirals "Gathering Dust"?
Anyone from GSK Interested?
Anything Worth Doing. . .
ApoE4: Test or Not?
Apotex's Plavix Adventure: Four Years Later
Applied Organic Synthesis: Chocolate Pecan Pie
Arcadia's Furnishings
Archaeologists Announce Dirty Laundry Discovery
Ardea's Gout Drug Progresses
Are Genes Patentable Or Not?
Are You Experienced?
Are You Now, Or Have You Ever Been. . .?
Arena / Lorcaserin Update
Arena, Lorcaserin, and the FDA
Argumentum ad Crumenam
Ariad Loses on Appeal
Ariad Wins a Round
Ariad's Day in Court
Ariad's Patent Eviscerated
Ariad's Patent Rises From the Grave to Smite the Living
Ariad's Patent: A Court Rules
Ariad's Patent: Let Us Now Dance In Circles
Aromatherapy
Around and About
Arr, Me Hearties!
Ars Longa, But Instructions to Authors Say "Brevis"
Arsenic Bacteria Ride Again. (Or Don't).
Arsenic Bacteria: Does The Evidence Hold Up?
Arsenic in DNA: The Kinetic Argument.
Arsenic, Patents, and the World
Arzoxifene: Not the Road to Big Profits?
As Goes ASCO. . .
As Merck Caroms Off Another Tree
As Others See Us
As Thin As a Soap Bubble
Ask Not
Astellas Buys Out OSI
Astellas and OSI: Nothing like MLNM/Takeda?
AstraZeneca Cutting Even More?
AstraZeneca Layoffs and Closings
AstraZeneca Makes Its Move
AstraZeneca Tears 'Em Down
AstraZeneca in Waltham
AstraZeneca's Problems
At My Desk, Playing 500-Card Stud
At Your Newsstand Today
Attack of the Angry Viruses
Attitude
Auroral Activity
Autism and Vaccines: Boiling Over Yet Again
Avandia Goes Down: A Research Rant
Avandia Goes Out
Avandia's Latest Round
Avandia: Going Under for the Third Time?
Avandia: Off the Market or Not?
Avandia: Trouble or Not?
Avandia: Trouble, Run Head to Head
Avandia: Was the Evidence Buried?
Avastin At the FDA Today: Passion Should Lose
Avastin Coverage, Amended
Avastin For Metastatic Breast Cancer: The Whole Story
Avastin and Medicare
Avastin's Metastatic Breast Cancer Approval Revoked
Avastin's Numbers
Avastin: False Hope for Metastatic Breast Cancer
Avastin: Taking It Back
Aventis: Is It Genzyme?
Awash in Yen
Awful, No Doubt. But Not As Awful as Before?
Awkward Conversations