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  1. Article ; Online: A Clinical Pharmacist-Led Transitions of Care Program for Veterans With Two Planned Care Transitions (Hospital to Skilled Care and Skilled Care to Home) Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic.

    Scannell, Gabrielle A / Bevan, Darion / Cowan, Amy / Weiss, Roxanne J / Brenner, Rachel / Farrell, Timothy W / Yarbrough, Peter M / Rupper, Randall / Eleazer, G Paul

    Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

    2024  

    Abstract: Transitional care teams have been shown to improve patient safety. We describe a novel transitional care team with a clinical pharmacist as team leader initiated amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The program focused on Veterans with 2 planned transitions of ... ...

    Abstract Transitional care teams have been shown to improve patient safety. We describe a novel transitional care team with a clinical pharmacist as team leader initiated amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The program focused on Veterans with 2 planned transitions of care: hospital to skilled nursing facility (SNF) and from SNF to home. Ninety older Veterans were enrolled, and 79 medication errors and 80 appointment errors were identified. We conclude that a pharmacist-led program can improve safety in patients with 2 planned transitions of care.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-04-25
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2171030-2
    ISSN 1538-9375 ; 1525-8610
    ISSN (online) 1538-9375
    ISSN 1525-8610
    DOI 10.1016/j.jamda.2024.03.117
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  2. Article ; Online: Revisit PEG-Induced Precipitation Assay for Protein Solubility Assessment of Monoclonal Antibody Formulations.

    Scannell, Martha J / Hyatt, Matthew W / Budyak, Ivan L / Woldeyes, Mahlet A / Wang, Ying

    Pharmaceutical research

    2021  Volume 38, Issue 11, Page(s) 1947–1960

    Abstract: Purpose: Protein solubility is an important attribute of pharmaceutical monoclonal antibody (MAb) formulations, particularly at high MAb concentrations. PEG-induced protein precipitation has been routinely used to assess protein solubility. To provide ... ...

    Abstract Purpose: Protein solubility is an important attribute of pharmaceutical monoclonal antibody (MAb) formulations, particularly at high MAb concentrations. PEG-induced protein precipitation has been routinely used to assess protein solubility. To provide insights for better understanding and implementation of PEG-induced protein precipitation assay, this work compares different solubility measures and examines their relevance to loss of protein solubility in concentrated formulations.
    Methods: Solubility of a MAb in 15 formulations was evaluated using PEG-induced precipitation assay. Three apparent protein solubility measures, the middle-point and onset PEG concentrations (c
    Results: PEG-induced precipitation assay predicted overall protein solubility ranking similar to that by DLS k
    Conclusions: This study demonstrated good correlations between the protein solubility measures obtained from PEG-induced precipitation experiments and DLS k
    MeSH term(s) Antibodies, Monoclonal/chemistry ; Antibodies, Monoclonal/therapeutic use ; Chemistry, Pharmaceutical/methods ; Polyethylene Glycols/chemistry ; Solubility
    Chemical Substances Antibodies, Monoclonal ; Polyethylene Glycols (3WJQ0SDW1A)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-10-13
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 843063-9
    ISSN 1573-904X ; 0724-8741 ; 0739-0742
    ISSN (online) 1573-904X
    ISSN 0724-8741 ; 0739-0742
    DOI 10.1007/s11095-021-03119-4
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  3. Article ; Online: Predictive validity in drug discovery: what it is, why it matters and how to improve it.

    Scannell, Jack W / Bosley, James / Hickman, John A / Dawson, Gerard R / Truebel, Hubert / Ferreira, Guilherme S / Richards, Duncan / Treherne, J Mark

    Nature reviews. Drug discovery

    2022  Volume 21, Issue 12, Page(s) 915–931

    Abstract: Successful drug discovery is like finding oases of safety and efficacy in chemical and biological deserts. Screens in disease models, and other decision tools used in drug research and development (R&D), point towards oases when they score therapeutic ... ...

    Abstract Successful drug discovery is like finding oases of safety and efficacy in chemical and biological deserts. Screens in disease models, and other decision tools used in drug research and development (R&D), point towards oases when they score therapeutic candidates in a way that correlates with clinical utility in humans. Otherwise, they probably lead in the wrong direction. This line of thought can be quantified by using decision theory, in which 'predictive validity' is the correlation coefficient between the output of a decision tool and clinical utility across therapeutic candidates. Analyses based on this approach reveal that the detectability of good candidates is extremely sensitive to predictive validity, because the deserts are big and oases small. Both history and decision theory suggest that predictive validity is under-managed in drug R&D, not least because it is so hard to measure before projects succeed or fail later in the process. This article explains the influence of predictive validity on R&D productivity and discusses methods to evaluate and improve it, with the aim of supporting the application of more effective decision tools and catalysing investment in their creation.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Drug Discovery/methods ; Efficiency
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-10-04
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 2062954-0
    ISSN 1474-1784 ; 1474-1776
    ISSN (online) 1474-1784
    ISSN 1474-1776
    DOI 10.1038/s41573-022-00552-x
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  4. Article ; Online: Antibiotics: expect to use less, more responsibly.

    Scannell, J W / Bruce, A

    The Veterinary record

    2015  Volume 177, Issue 7, Page(s) 168–170

    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology ; Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use ; Drug Resistance, Bacterial ; Health Policy ; Humans ; Legislation, Veterinary ; United Kingdom ; Veterinary Medicine
    Chemical Substances Anti-Bacterial Agents
    Language English
    Publishing date 2015-08-15
    Publishing country England
    Document type Editorial
    ZDB-ID 390015-0
    ISSN 2042-7670 ; 0042-4900
    ISSN (online) 2042-7670
    ISSN 0042-4900
    DOI 10.1136/vr.h4275
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  5. Article ; Online: When Quality Beats Quantity: Decision Theory, Drug Discovery, and the Reproducibility Crisis.

    Scannell, Jack W / Bosley, Jim

    PloS one

    2016  Volume 11, Issue 2, Page(s) e0147215

    Abstract: A striking contrast runs through the last 60 years of biopharmaceutical discovery, research, and development. Huge scientific and technological gains should have increased the quality of academic science and raised industrial R&D efficiency. However, ... ...

    Abstract A striking contrast runs through the last 60 years of biopharmaceutical discovery, research, and development. Huge scientific and technological gains should have increased the quality of academic science and raised industrial R&D efficiency. However, academia faces a "reproducibility crisis"; inflation-adjusted industrial R&D costs per novel drug increased nearly 100 fold between 1950 and 2010; and drugs are more likely to fail in clinical development today than in the 1970s. The contrast is explicable only if powerful headwinds reversed the gains and/or if many "gains" have proved illusory. However, discussions of reproducibility and R&D productivity rarely address this point explicitly. The main objectives of the primary research in this paper are: (a) to provide quantitatively and historically plausible explanations of the contrast; and (b) identify factors to which R&D efficiency is sensitive. We present a quantitative decision-theoretic model of the R&D process. The model represents therapeutic candidates (e.g., putative drug targets, molecules in a screening library, etc.) within a "measurement space", with candidates' positions determined by their performance on a variety of assays (e.g., binding affinity, toxicity, in vivo efficacy, etc.) whose results correlate to a greater or lesser degree. We apply decision rules to segment the space, and assess the probability of correct R&D decisions. We find that when searching for rare positives (e.g., candidates that will successfully complete clinical development), changes in the predictive validity of screening and disease models that many people working in drug discovery would regard as small and/or unknowable (i.e., an 0.1 absolute change in correlation coefficient between model output and clinical outcomes in man) can offset large (e.g., 10 fold, even 100 fold) changes in models' brute-force efficiency. We also show how validity and reproducibility correlate across a population of simulated screening and disease models. We hypothesize that screening and disease models with high predictive validity are more likely to yield good answers and good treatments, so tend to render themselves and their diseases academically and commercially redundant. Perhaps there has also been too much enthusiasm for reductionist molecular models which have insufficient predictive validity. Thus we hypothesize that the average predictive validity of the stock of academically and industrially "interesting" screening and disease models has declined over time, with even small falls able to offset large gains in scientific knowledge and brute-force efficiency. The rate of creation of valid screening and disease models may be the major constraint on R&D productivity.
    MeSH term(s) Biopharmaceutics/methods ; Biopharmaceutics/trends ; Cost-Benefit Analysis ; Decision Theory ; Drug Discovery/economics ; Efficiency ; False Positive Reactions ; High-Throughput Screening Assays ; Humans ; Models, Theoretical ; Quality Control ; Reproducibility of Results ; Research
    Language English
    Publishing date 2016-02-10
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2267670-3
    ISSN 1932-6203 ; 1932-6203
    ISSN (online) 1932-6203
    ISSN 1932-6203
    DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0147215
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  6. Article ; Online: Financial returns on R&D: looking back at history, looking forward to adaptive licensing.

    Scannell, J W / Hinds, S / Evans, R

    Reviews on recent clinical trials

    2015  Volume 10, Issue 1, Page(s) 28–43

    Abstract: Investment in R&D for drugs launched in the late 1970s to early 1990s generated good returns for investors. R&D was inexpensive. Clinical trial success rates were high. Consumption was increasing. Drug prices were outstripping inflation, which raised ... ...

    Abstract Investment in R&D for drugs launched in the late 1970s to early 1990s generated good returns for investors. R&D was inexpensive. Clinical trial success rates were high. Consumption was increasing. Drug prices were outstripping inflation, which raised profit margins. Tax rates were falling. However, returns on R&D have been falling since the early 1990s given rising clinical trial costs, rising trial failure rates, and lower consumption growth in developed markets. Many investors believe that average financial returns on today's R&D will be below the cost of capital, particularly if US drug price inflation moderates. Thus R&D investment by major drug companies is flat or perhaps falling in real terms. Various regulatory initiatives have tried to streamline clinical development and approval. The latest is Adaptive Licensing (AL). The near-term effect of AL on industry-level financial returns will be modest. AL will, however, be salient for decisions to invest in specific trials and may make it easier for smaller companies to fund development. AL could become more important in the long run if it helps shift industry, regulators, and payers from what has been an increasingly linear model of innovation; predicated on the ideas that basic science predicts, trials test predictions, and trial results form a complete description of a drug's attributes. History shows that many drugs become important because doctors and patients discover utility that was not initially apparent to regulators, payers, or investors. One hope for AL, therefore, is that it will bring more acceptably safe chemical diversity into real world use at lower R&D cost.
    MeSH term(s) Drug Discovery/economics ; Drug Discovery/history ; Drug Discovery/trends ; Drug and Narcotic Control ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Humans ; Models, Theoretical ; Research/economics ; Research/history ; Research/trends ; United Kingdom
    Language English
    Publishing date 2015-04-29
    Publishing country United Arab Emirates
    Document type Historical Article ; Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2251879-4
    ISSN 1876-1038 ; 1574-8871
    ISSN (online) 1876-1038
    ISSN 1574-8871
    DOI 10.2174/1574887110666150430151751
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  7. Article ; Online: Author Correction: Performance assessment and economic analysis of a human Liver-Chip for predictive toxicology.

    Ewart, Lorna / Apostolou, Athanasia / Briggs, Skyler A / Carman, Christopher V / Chaff, Jake T / Heng, Anthony R / Jadalannagari, Sushma / Janardhanan, Jeshina / Jang, Kyung-Jin / Joshipura, Sannidhi R / Kadam, Mahika M / Kanellias, Marianne / Kujala, Ville J / Kulkarni, Gauri / Le, Christopher Y / Lucchesi, Carolina / Manatakis, Dimitris V / Maniar, Kairav K / Quinn, Meaghan E /
    Ravan, Joseph S / Rizos, Ann Catherine / Sauld, John F K / Sliz, Josiah D / Tien-Street, William / Trinidad, Dennis Ramos / Velez, James / Wendell, Max / Irrechukwu, Onyi / Mahalingaiah, Prathap Kumar / Ingber, Donald E / Scannell, Jack W / Levner, Daniel

    Communications medicine

    2023  Volume 3, Issue 1, Page(s) 16

    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-02-02
    Publishing country England
    Document type Published Erratum
    ISSN 2730-664X
    ISSN (online) 2730-664X
    DOI 10.1038/s43856-023-00249-1
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  8. Article: Determining cortical landscapes.

    Scannell, J W

    Nature

    1997  Volume 386, Issue 6624, Page(s) 452

    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Cats ; Cerebral Cortex/anatomy & histology ; Macaca ; Nerve Fibers ; Species Specificity
    Language English
    Publishing date 1997-04-03
    Publishing country England
    Document type Letter
    ZDB-ID 120714-3
    ISSN 1476-4687 ; 0028-0836
    ISSN (online) 1476-4687
    ISSN 0028-0836
    DOI 10.1038/386452a0
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  9. Article: The Annual Cycle of Energy Input, Modal Excitation and Physical Plus Biogenic Turbulent Dissipation in a Temperate Lake

    Simpson, John H. / Woolway, R. Iestyn / Scannell, Brian / Austin, Martin J. / Powell, Ben / Maberly, Stephen C.

    Water resources research. 2021 June, v. 57, no. 6

    2021  

    Abstract: ... dissipation rate of 2.5 × 10⁻⁵ W m⁻² corresponding to ∼3%–4% of RWy. Over the same period, the dissipation ... dissipation contributed an average of ∼36% of the total BBL dissipation rate of ∼5.7 × 10⁻⁵ W m⁻². ...

    Abstract A year of measurements by Doppler Current Profilers, a chain of temperature sensors and a suite of meteorological instruments has been analyzed to elucidate the seasonal cycle of the dynamical response of a temperate lake (Windermere) to surface forcing. The efficiency of energy input to the lake (Eff) was determined by comparing the rate of working by the surface wind‐stress RWy with the downward flux of momentum in the atmosphere. Eff was found to increase from values of ∼0.3% in winter mixed conditions, up to ∼1.2% during summer stratification, when internal seiches were present. Water column kinetic energy was similarly enhanced during stratification. Spectral analysis of the axial velocity showed that the first vertical mode was dominant during most of the stratified period with a less prominent second mode appearing in the early part of the summer. The observed periods and vertical structure of these modes generally accorded with estimates from internal wave theory based on density profiles. During stratification, pycnocline dissipation exhibited high variability linked to the surface forcing with an average, depth‐integrated, pycnocline dissipation rate of 2.5 × 10⁻⁵ W m⁻² corresponding to ∼3%–4% of RWy. Over the same period, the dissipation rate in the bottom boundary layer (BBL) exhibited a marked diurnal variation unrelated to physical forcing. Acoustic backscatter indicated the presence of vertically migrating organisms with peak aggregation in the BBL around midday coinciding with maximum dissipation. During stratification, biogenic dissipation contributed an average of ∼36% of the total BBL dissipation rate of ∼5.7 × 10⁻⁵ W m⁻².
    Keywords acoustics ; diurnal variation ; kinetic energy ; lakes ; momentum ; research ; seasonal variation ; spectral analysis ; summer ; temperature ; water ; wind stress
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2021-06
    Publishing place John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
    Document type Article
    Note JOURNAL ARTICLE
    ZDB-ID 5564-5
    ISSN 1944-7973 ; 0043-1397
    ISSN (online) 1944-7973
    ISSN 0043-1397
    DOI 10.1029/2020WR029441
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  10. Article ; Online: Performance assessment and economic analysis of a human Liver-Chip for predictive toxicology.

    Ewart, Lorna / Apostolou, Athanasia / Briggs, Skyler A / Carman, Christopher V / Chaff, Jake T / Heng, Anthony R / Jadalannagari, Sushma / Janardhanan, Jeshina / Jang, Kyung-Jin / Joshipura, Sannidhi R / Kadam, Mahika M / Kanellias, Marianne / Kujala, Ville J / Kulkarni, Gauri / Le, Christopher Y / Lucchesi, Carolina / Manatakis, Dimitris V / Maniar, Kairav K / Quinn, Meaghan E /
    Ravan, Joseph S / Rizos, Ann Catherine / Sauld, John F K / Sliz, Josiah D / Tien-Street, William / Trinidad, Dennis Ramos / Velez, James / Wendell, Max / Irrechukwu, Onyi / Mahalingaiah, Prathap Kumar / Ingber, Donald E / Scannell, Jack W / Levner, Daniel

    Communications medicine

    2022  Volume 2, Issue 1, Page(s) 154

    Abstract: Background: Conventional preclinical models often miss drug toxicities, meaning the harm these drugs pose to humans is only realized in clinical trials or when they make it to market. This has caused the pharmaceutical industry to waste considerable ... ...

    Abstract Background: Conventional preclinical models often miss drug toxicities, meaning the harm these drugs pose to humans is only realized in clinical trials or when they make it to market. This has caused the pharmaceutical industry to waste considerable time and resources developing drugs destined to fail. Organ-on-a-Chip technology has the potential improve success in drug development pipelines, as it can recapitulate organ-level pathophysiology and clinical responses; however, systematic and quantitative evaluations of Organ-Chips' predictive value have not yet been reported.
    Methods: 870 Liver-Chips were analyzed to determine their ability to predict drug-induced liver injury caused by small molecules identified as benchmarks by the Innovation and Quality consortium, who has published guidelines defining criteria for qualifying preclinical models. An economic analysis was also performed to measure the value Liver-Chips could offer if they were broadly adopted in supporting toxicity-related decisions as part of preclinical development workflows.
    Results: Here, we show that the Liver-Chip met the qualification guidelines across a blinded set of 27 known hepatotoxic and non-toxic drugs with a sensitivity of 87% and a specificity of 100%. We also show that this level of performance could generate over $3 billion annually for the pharmaceutical industry through increased small-molecule R&D productivity.
    Conclusions: The results of this study show how incorporating predictive Organ-Chips into drug development workflows could substantially improve drug discovery and development, allowing manufacturers to bring safer, more effective medicines to market in less time and at lower costs.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-12-06
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 2730-664X
    ISSN (online) 2730-664X
    DOI 10.1038/s43856-022-00209-1
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