Target Dossier

Our target dossier services are aimed at providing a thorough due diligence to therapeutic targets before you embark on the long, expensive and winding road to discovering a novel drug. Our dossiers are not just a compilation of information available from the web but we provide a strategic perspective on current gaps in the therapeautic area, liabilities and drawbacks of current drugs and suggestions on differentiation over marketed drugs.

Target background
  • Target name, taxonomy, gene ontology
  • Isoforms/orthologs/paralogs, homology
  • Structural characteristics, domains
Target biology
  • Target expression profile
  • Molecular function and cellular location
  • Biological process in cells
  • Target interactome
Target validation
  • Target expression profile
  • Molecular function and cellular location
  • Biological process in cells
  • Target interactome
Relevance in human disease
  • Target associated disease
  • Target associated drugs
  • Genetic association studies (GWAS)
  • Clinical trials data on efficacy and toxicity
  • Target liabilities and risks
Pharmacology
  • In vitro assays (biochemical and cellular)
  • In vivo animal models
  • Druggability
  • Safety and toxicity, hazard overview
Medicinal chemistry
  • Overview of chemotypes: Synthetic feasibility, druggability
  • SAR/SPR trends
  • Selection of chemotypes based on focused parameters
  • Medicinal chemistry point of view
  • Recommendations for acquiring IP
Competitive landscape
  • Current treatment options, other marketed drugs in the target class
  • Intellectual property landscape
  • SWOT analysis
  • Diffrentiation opportunities
Screening flow strategy
  • Dashboards with KPIs to monitor target landscape