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Astex Therapeutics Limited
Astex Oncology and CNS Drug Discovery & Development
Astex Therapeutics Limited is a UK company with status active founded in 1999 based in East of England.
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Updated 06 Jun 2026 16:52
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Financial period: 1 Jan 2024 to 31 Dec 2024
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Genetic analysis for stratification and discovery in dementia patients by extending the NOMALY framework to non-coding variation
1 Sep 2023 to 31 Aug 2025
OutSee Limited working with Astex Pharmaceuticals will be unlocking value and insights in non-coding genomic data through the _Nomaly_ approach to support precision medicine for dementia patients. We will be developing new AI to tackle the non-coding part of the genome alongside discovery developed on the protein-coding variation in the genome. Dementia i...
Practical improvements to the performance of quantum simulation for drug-protein binding
1 Nov 2021 to 30 Apr 2023
The process of discovering and testing new drugs is very expensive and takes a long time. The average cost of discovering a new drug and bringing it to market has tripled since 2010, reaching almost $3bn in 2018\. Current methods for discovering new drugs are unreliable and involve a 'trial-and-error' approach. Pharmaceutical companies want to reduce the ...