Shaurya Chanana

Biopharma is a strange business. Drug candidates routinely fail in clinical trials at a rate that would be unacceptable in most other industries. Why should we accept this as the norm? What if we could produce medicines in such a reliable way that their clinical success was unsurprising? Where should we be searching for new medicines in the first place? These were some of the existential questions about drug discovery that @viswacolluru, the founder of @envedabio, asked himself while the idea for the company was still just a tiny seed in his mind. Over time, a combination of distinct experiences throughout Viswa’s life provided a rich and unique soil for this idea to germinate into something much more significant. The core idea of Enveda is to revive the pharmaceutical industry’s focus on natural product discovery—the historical source of many of the world’s greatest medicines. This week, I cover the company’s origins, evolution, and recent advances: centuryofbio.com/p/enveda-biosc…

🔥 Hot off the press!! 🔥 How do we find drugs from plants, you ask? Our amazing team has built *the coolest* tools that decode the chemistry of the natural world. Check out our pre-print of one of these tools below!!👇🏽👇🏽

@sapatera @punkrockscience @jfmclaughlin92 maps.app.goo.gl/EB7EYbbmbYrmnT…

Exploring high throughput screening data using self organizing maps! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… @ACSOmega @NCIResearchCtr #NaturalProducts #drugdiscovery

If you're trying to figure out what nature's chemistry looks like, you'll want to be able to predict the mass spectra of molecules. Check out this blog on our work at @envedabio using graph neural networks to get better and more scalable predictions!

There are a number of different opportunities in analytical sciences within Corteva. Come learn more about it! Register ahead of time using the link below or use the QR code. lnkd.in/gNtSEF29

@olivia__ms On the left side, the Sanskrit word might be misspelt. I think it should be Bandhati (बन्धति) Source: en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/bandhati but also am a native speaker of Hindi and the na sound should come before the dhh sound 🤔 (at least it does in Hindi)

tulip, turban, and bandana all share the same root!

@BananaWithACh Thank you, this is the tweet I remember. I don’t know why it never came up when I searched 🤷‍♂️

Help me out #DrugDiscovery twitter. I remember seeing an analysis of FDA approved drugs and they structural complexity but now can’t find it. Does anyone remember it and have the link? Thanks in advance!

@johnmcelhone @georainbolt ⭐️

The photo of the U.S. Air Force's new stealth aircraft is on the left, taken at night, with stars in the background. We can use them to find the exact location of the jet (thread)

#AWSGameDay wooo!

@ChasingMicrobes @nf_core @nextflowio Add some rain sounds and you’re set

#asp2022 @pharmacognosy

Emily Mevers (@MeversLab ) coming in with some sage advice for everyone in #NaturalProducts #DrugDiscovery with a talk on finding molecules from Moon🌙 Snail 🐌 Egg🥚 masses

Words to live by.@canklin presenting a modern day tutorial on natural products NMR at #ASP2022 @bruker

@CarlaMenegatti is talking about natural products from millipedes. Yes, millipedes! 🪱 🐛

@monicatpupo giving a talk on bee and fungal 🐝 🍄 interactions! #ASP2022 @PupoLab

Barry O’Keefe giving a fantastic talk on Griffithsin for #SARSCoV2 at #ASP2022 #2022ASP @pharmacognosy @theNCI (they’re also hiring)

#ASP2022 #2022ASP opening reception in the bag. Next up, talks all week! Tomorrow morning is some #cryoEM get hyped! event.crowdcompass.com/asp2022/post/M…