Discovery bioanalysis

“Discovery bioanalysis is a very technology-driven field and … the motivation to constantly ‘push the envelope’, and the willingness to evaluate and adopt novel MS-based and other detection technologies, are very much an accepted culture of the discovery bioanalytical community…” It has been well documented that the current drug-development process is long, expensive and risky, which has led to the entire R&D model of the pharmaceutical industry being questioned for its effectiveness. While opinions differ on how to address these issues in drug development, it is without any doubt that drug discovery (pre-IND) research has to become more productive and...