De-Risking Therapeutic Candidates with Off-Target Screening

31/01/2024 27 min
De-Risking Therapeutic Candidates with Off-Target Screening

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Episode Synopsis

The high cost of drug development is linked to the high rate of therapies that fail in the clinic. Safety concern relating to the ability for an experimental therapy to bind to more than a target of interest is one major reason drugs fail in development. Charles River Labs is working with its clients to detect off-target binding early in the drug development process using its Retrogenix platform, cell microarray technology that can identify potential safety problems of an experimental therapy (https://www2.criver.com/l/60962/2024-01-31/n4wrxz). We spoke to Mark Aspinall-O’Dea, associate director of U.K. advanced modalities for Charles River Labs, about the risks of off-target binding, how its Retrogenix platform technology works to detect potential problems, and its ability to work across therapeutic modalities.