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Emerging Drug Discovery Technologies: Building Competitive Advantage Through Lab-on-aChip, Nanotechnology and RNAi

Published by: Business Insights

Published: Apr. 1, 2005 - 186 Pages


Table of Contents


Table of Contents

Emerging Drug Discovery Technologies

Executive Summary 10

Introduction 10

Lab-on-a-chip/microfluidics 11

Nanotechnology 12

RNA interference 13

Chapter 1 Introduction 16

Summary 16

Overview 17

A historical overview of the drug discovery process 18

Drug discovery in the 1950s and 1960s 18

Drug discovery in the 1980s 19

Drug discovery today 20

Emerging drug discovery technologies 22

Lab-on-a-chip/microfluidic technologies 22

Nanotechnology 23

RNA interference 24

Report objectives 25

Chapter 2 Lab-on-a-chip/microfluidics 27

Summary 27

Introduction 28

LOC technologies 31

LOC design issues 32

Microarrays 32

Spotted microarrays 33

In situ fabricated arrays 34

DNA applications 35

Protein applications 36

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The LabChip 37

Lab-on-a-CD 41

Chip-based electrospray system for mass spectroscopy 43

HPLC-on-a-chip 44

Microfluidic PCR 45

Multiplexed capillary electrophoresis 48

Market drivers and restraints 48

Market drivers 49

HTS 49

Reduction of human error 50

Reduced exposure to hazardous materials 50

Reduction in sample requirement and routine tasks 50

Cost savings 51

Market restraints 51

Reduction in demand 51

Reluctance to replace old systems with new technologies 52

Market analysis 52

Competitive structure 54

Market share 54

Aclara BioSciences 55

Advion BioSciences, Inc. 56

Agilent Technologies 57

BioMicro Systems 58

BioTrove Inc. 59

Caliper Life Sciences 60

Cepheid 62

CombiMatrix Corp. 63

Eksigent Technologies 64

Epigem Limited 65

Fluidigm Corp. 66

Gyros AB 67

Nanogen 68

Nanostream Inc. 70

Protiveris 71

Sequenom 71

Zyomyx 72

Future developments 73

Chapter 3 Nanotechnology 77

Summary 77

Introduction 78

Nanotechnologies 79

Applications 81

Drug discovery and drug delivery 81

Biosensing 82

Other applications 82

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Public opinion 82

Funding 83

Market 84

Nano-enabled drug discovery tools 84

Atomic force microscopy 85

Nano-mass spectroscopy 86

Dip-pen nanolithography 87

Nanoarrays 88

Nanoparticles for drug discovery 90

Quantum dots and gold nanoparticles 92

Nanoshells 95

Nanobarcode particles 97

Nano-enabled drugs 98

Abraxane 98

RenaZorb 98

Antimicrobial emulsions 99

Antioxidants and fullerenes 99

Industry challenges 101

High demands of drug discovery applications 102

Long-term stability of nanomaterials 103

Technical issues in nano-assembly and molecular manufacturing 104

Barriers to collaborations 104

Lack of test standardization 104

Scalability 105

Pharmaceutical companies reluctant to invest in nanotechnology 105

Funding for nanotechnology 105

Market drivers and restraints 106

Market drivers 108

Technological drivers 108

Increased funding 109

Social and economic factors 110

Market restraints 111

Uncertainty 111

Public awareness 111

Environmental concerns 112

Detection of incurable diseases 112

Large expectations 112

Market analysis 113

Competitive structure 114

Market share 115

3DM Inc. 117

Alnis Biosciences Inc. 118

American Pharmaceuticals Partners Inc. 119

BioCrystal Ltd. 120

BioForce NanoSciences Inc. 120

CrystalPlex Corp. 122

C Sixty Inc. 122

Evident Technologies, Inc. 123

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NanBio Corp. 124

Nanosphere 125

PharmaSeq, Inc 126

Quantum Dot Corp. 128

Future developments 129

Chapter 4 RNA interference (RNAi) 133

Summary 133

Introduction 134

Gene silencing 137

Methods for gene silencing 137

Aptamers 138

Ribozymes 138

Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) and PNA-DNA chimeras 140

Antisense oligonucleotides 140

RNA interference (RNAi) 142

RNAi mechanism 142

RNAi approaches 143

siRNA 144

ddRNAi 144

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) 145

Short hairpin RNAs (shRNAs) 146

Delivery methods 146

Delivery using chemical transfections 147

Delivery using electroporation 149

Delivery using expression vectors 149

Delivery using cell-penetrating peptides 151

In vivo delivery of siRNAs 151

Industry challenges 152

Intellectual property issues 153

Off-target effects 153

Delivery of siRNA in vitro and in vivo 154

Toxicity issues from RNAi 154

Pricing issues 155

Efficacy of RNAi 155

Standardization of technologies 156

Proof of therapeutic potential 156

Market drivers and restraints 157

Market drivers 158

Demand for accelerated drug discovery 158

Resolution of intellectual property issues 158

Robust, efficient and potent technology 158

Functional genomics and proteomics studies 159

Vector-based and siRNA price decline 159

Reliability 159

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Market restraints 160

Expensive RNAi reagents 160

Delivery of siRNA 160

Failure of antisense drugs 160

Lack of robust clinical data 161

Selection and design of appropriate siRNA 161

Toxicity and off-target effects 161

Market analysis 161

Revenue forecasts 161

Trends by geographic region 163

North America 164

Europe 164

Japan 164

Rest of the World 164

Competitive structure 165

Market share analysis 166

Ambion 168

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 168

Benitec Ltd 169

CytRx Corp. 170

Cenix BioScience 170

Devgen 171

Dharmacon, Inc. 172

Eurogentec (EGT) 173

Imgenex Corp. 173

Immusol Inc. 174

Invitrogen Corp. 174

InvivoGen 174

MWG Biotech 175

Proligo 175

Promega 176

Qiagen. 176

Sirna Therapeutics 177

Future developments 178

Chapter 5 Appendix 181

Research methodology and information sources 181

Primary research methodology 181

Secondary research methodology 182

Market sizing 182

Forecasting 182

Index 184

Abbreviations and acronyms 185

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List of Figures

Figure 1.1: Drug development process during the 1950s and 1960s 19

Figure 1.2: Drug development process during the 1980s 20

Figure 1.3: Drug development process today 21

Figure 2.1: The Gyros Bioaffy lab-on-a-CD 42

Figure 2.2: Advion BioSciences’ ESI Chip 44

Figure 2.3: HPLC-on-a-chip 45

Figure 2.4: Cepheid’s GeneXpert cartridges for PCR analysis 47

Figure 2.5: Market drivers and restraints for LOC/microfluidics devices in drug discovery 49

Figure 2.6: Microfluidics/LOC revenue forecasts, 2005-2012 53

Figure 2.7: Microfluidics/lab-on-a-chip market shares, 2004 54

Figure 3.1: Expression of cells using QDots 94

Figure 3.2: Binding of Nanosphere’s nanoparticle probe to a selected genetic or proteomic target

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Figure 3.3: Nano-enabled drug discovery industry challenges 102

Figure 3.4: Market drivers and restraints for nano-enabled drug discovery 107

Figure 3.5: Nano-enabled drug discovery revenue forecasts, 2004-2012 114

Figure 3.6: Nanoenabled drug discovery market shares, 2004 116

Figure 4.7: RNAi pathways 143

Figure 4.8: Industry challenges faced by RNAi industry participants 152

Figure 4.9: Market drivers and restraints for RNAi technology 157

Figure 4.10: RNAi revenue forecasts and growth rates, 2004-2012 162

Figure 4.11: RNAi revenues by geographic region, 2004 163

Figure 4.12 RNAi market shares, 2004 166

List of Tables

Table 2.1: Microfluidics/LOC revenue forecasts, 2005-2012 53

Table 3.2: Nano-enabled drug discovery revenue forecasts, 2004-2012 113

Table 4.3: RNAi revenue forecasts, 2004-2012 162

Table 5.4: Abbreviations and acronyms, A-L 185

Table 5.5: Abbreviations and acronyms, M-Z 186

Abstract

The last decade has been marked by an unprecedented boom in the number and variety of technologies used to discover and develop new drugs; many of these technologies arose from work surrounding the human genome project. For example, gene sequencing, gene expression profiling and genotyping have greatly benefited from technological advances, resulting in dramatically higher throughputs and rapid declines in cost. For some other areas it has proven to be more of a challenge to achieve performance improvements of the same magnitude. Defining the function of each gene, or more specifically, the protein it encodes, has been particularly challenging. It is not yet possible to study gene function with the type of “massively parallel” approaches used in other fields.



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