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The development of structure-guided drug discovery is a story of knowledge
exchange where new ideas originate from all parts of the research ecosystem.
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin obtained insulin from Boots Pure Drug Company in the
1930s and insulin crystallization was optimized in the company Novo in the 1950s,
allowing the structure to be determined at Oxford University. The structure of
renin was developed in academia, on this occasion in London, in response to a
need to develop antihypertensives in pharma. The idea of a dimeric aspartic
protease came from an international academic team and was discovered in HIV; it
eventually led to new HIV antivirals being developed in industry.
Structure-guided fragment-based discovery was developed in large pharma and
biotechs, but has been exploited in academia for the development of new
inhibitors targeting protein-protein interactions and also antimicrobials to
combat mycobacterial infections such as tuberculosis. These observations provide
a strong argument against the so-called 'linear model', where ideas flow only in
one direction from academic institutions to industry. Structure-guided drug
discovery is a story of applications of protein crystallography and knowledge
exhange between academia and industry that has led to new drug approvals for
cancer and other common medical conditions by the Food and Drug Administration in
the USA, as well as hope for the treatment of rare genetic diseases and
infectious diseases that are a particular challenge in the developing world.