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Leading mathematical modelling company, supporting oncology drug development.     From us to you - curated cutting-edge research and insights. Welcome to our newsletter, where we share the latest updates from Physiomics and offer insights on the pivotal news shaping the dynamic world of drug development.     Top news     Welcoming Peter Sargent as newly appointed CEO   Peter, who joined Physiomics in September 2023 as Chief Operating Officer, has now been appointed to...

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Leading mathematical modelling company, supporting oncology drug development. From us to you - our top moments of 2023! 2023 has been an eventful and exciting year for Physiomics, from welcoming new members to the team and moving to our new offices, to bringing new clients and collaborators onboard to work with us – it’s been a great year! Read on as we reflect on some of our...

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Leading mathematical modelling company, supporting oncology drug development. From us to you - curated cutting-edge research and insights. Welcome to our newsletter, where we share the latest updates from Physiomics and offer insights on the pivotal news shaping the dynamic world of drug development.   Top news Meet us at AACR-NCI-EORTC! Physiomics is attending the AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference on Molecular Targets And Cancer Therapeutics at the Hynes Convention Center, Boston on...

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Pete joins us with experience working for a wide variety of life sciences businesses across R&D and commercial operations, read on to find out why he is excited to join Physiomics and where he sees the most potential!   Q: What attracted you to the role at Physiomics? A: “Having worked across the biopharma industry for many years, I’m acutely aware of the mounting pressures drug development companies...

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Leading mathematical modelling company, supporting oncology drug development. From us to you - curated cutting-edge research and insights. Welcome to our newsletter, where we share the latest updates from Physiomics and offer insights on the pivotal news shaping the dynamic world of drug development.   Top news   Exciting new contract with Numab! We are pleased to announce that we have been awarded a further contract by existing client, Numab Therapeutics. The project...

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Cancer therapies are often associated with a ‘Goldilocks Window’ of optimal dosing: striking a balance where efficacy is maximised and toxicity is minimised. While mathematical modelling offers a powerful tool to inform optimal treatment approaches in cancer drug development, determining the right level of mechanistic detail to include in a model also requires careful consideration – hitting the right balance is both art and science.   You...

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Written by David Orrell As the physicist Richard Feynman famously observed in 1982: “Nature isn’t classical, dammit, and if you want to make a simulation of nature, you’d better make it quantum mechanical.” And as he went on, “by golly it’s a wonderful problem, because it doesn’t look so easy.” Indeed, the configuration of something like a drug compound, and its interaction with other substances, is ultimately...

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Recently, combination treatments involving immunotherapy have emerged as an exciting new way to tackle cancer [1].The spotlight has fallen especially on immune checkpoint inhibitors. In this post, we discuss how modelling can be used to unlock key insights to help optimise the promise of combination therapies.  Immunotherapy as a treatment approach has revolutionised oncology – and is one of our key areas of focus here...

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Written by Dr Jim Millen In these unprecedented times the life sciences sector is rightly focused on finding a vaccine against COVID-19.  It is estimated that it will take 12 to 18 months before an effective vaccine can be developed and manufactured.  In the meantime, health providers are focusing on managing the immediate crisis by delaying treatment of other less-urgent and non-coronavirus cases. But what challenges...

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Written by David Orrell In a 1904 paper on weather forecasting, the Norwegian physicist and meteorologist Vilhelm Bjerknes noted that the accuracy of a predictive model depends on two things: “1. A sufficiently accurate knowledge of the state of the atmosphere at the initial time. 2. A sufficiently accurate knowledge of the laws according to which one state of the atmosphere develops from another.” Or in...

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