In 2021, I joined the Ferring Research Institute of Ferring Pharmaceuticals in San Diego as a scientist

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About the Guest Elva Zhao is a Research Fellow at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS About this episode Elva is currently a research fellow at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences

— Academic–industry collaborations in GPCR drug discovery Insights from collaborative research with pharmaceutical It also showed me how important GPCR research is in pharmaceutical development.

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lie at the interface of structural biology and drug discovery, where molecular structures inform the design I can imagine myself in a biotech or pharmaceutical environment where I’m helping guide drug development

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The experiment that mattered most was not a drug candidate or a clinical advance - it was a designed Endosomal signaling is being missed Conventional GPCR assay design - stimulate, wash, measure endpoint Every positive and negative control performed exactly as designed. The conjugate worked. produced before - and it came directly from experience-built intuition rather than hypothesis-first design "I was convinced that I designed something that worked where it was not at all obvious that it was going

Themes of the Conversation Silicon-based DNA synthesis and the end of degenerate oligos in library design Motif-directed library design — encoding ligand-binding sequences into CDR3 architecture The library Twist's silicon platform produces pools of discrete, designed sequences — a shift in how synthetic libraries The design decision is the library's main differentiator. A motif-directed library reaches targets its motifs weren't designed for.

dismissal is partly methodological and partly personal: the proudest moment of her scientific life was designing Nordisk, and into biotech at InterAx — where the next challenge is using functional fingerprints to design InterAx treats GPCR pharmacology the way engineers treat aircraft design: build the mathematical model Her most formative scientific moment was designing a compound in HEK293 cells from a hypothesis at Novo numbers miss what a ligand is really doing 16:40 — AI plus "real intelligence": functional data in drug design

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She has advanced the use of computational methods to meet the challenges of designing therapeutics with molecular dynamics simulation methods with emphasis on application to G-protein coupled receptors and drug design

Now at the University of Glasgow, his primary research interests are focused on the rational design of at the University of Glasgow underpinned by a £118M new build that will house over 550 researchers designed

The episode explores gpcr internalization , fluorescence-based probe design, and how functional assay academic tool development to real-world adoption Balancing innovation with validation in GPCR assay design By combining fluorophore design, ligand chemistry, and pharmacology, his work enables precise visualization

Bryan Roth on the DARPA-funded effort to design a non-psychedelic psychedelic for depression — and why effort his lab is leading to answer that question through structure-guided drug discovery, biased ligand design are biological, not chemical Polypharmacology for complex neuropsychiatric disease Functional assay design Roth argues, belongs to designed polypharmacology.

for twelve years, through the company's acquisition by Sosei, helping establish structure-based drug design Scientific Themes of the Conversation Structure-based GPCR drug design and the thermostabilization breakthrough membrane protein team from scratch 15:29 Unexpected allosteric pockets and the next wave of GPCR drug design her team made considerable breakthroughs in the field of GPCR stabilization and structure-based drug design

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He explains what chemical design can solve that antibodies can’t, how to validate functional assay systems Why this matters How a chemist with zero biology training became a leader in GPCR probe design.

With a deep focus on structure-based drug design, Jens discusses how his lab bridges simulation and experiment—and Outside academia, he advises companies through a consulting arm focused on ligand design strategy.

understand the mechanism and structural bases for ligand binding and efficacy to help optimize the design The Sunahara lab has also been developing protein-based therapeutics using structure-guided design and

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effect, physiological examples of the beta-arrestin-biased receptors pharmacologists have been trying to design neat bifurcation between G-protein and beta-arrestin signaling that drove early opioid receptor drug design Shukla's lab designed antibody fragments to stabilize GPCR–beta-arrestin complexes for structural studies

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