About
Imagine Biotech
Imagine Biotech resources can call upon a wide variety of industry experts and technologies to de-risk your portfolio using sophisticated pathways that have matured due to improved data resources, confounding factors, and improved model assumptions.
Our array of services ranges from sophisticated molecular modeling density functional methods (DFT) to the first-of-its-kind integration package of ADMET and PK predictions to academic risk.
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Imagine Biotech staff have the training, expertise, and knowledge to review the proposed hypotheses (investment) in their entire journey to commercialization and select those tests/technologies to support further investment success or flag issues that arise only in the environment of review by skilled biotechnology experts.
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Depending on which sector (antibiotics, oncology, metabolic, diagnostic), certain assets are selected as components of the report we generate for investors and, insome cases, cost less than legal reviews.
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ADMET prediction with PK modeling
Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MNR)
Mass spectrometry assets
Bioinformatics & Metabolite databases
3D protein modelling and molecular docking
Toxicology | Drug delivery & infusion
Chromatography Techniques
The Importance of Knowing Your Molecule Before you Invest Time and Capital
Approximately 30% of drug failures in clinical trials are due to unmanageable toxicity.
About 18% of drug failures are specifically due to drug-induced liver injury (DILI).
Drug toxicity can result from both off-target and on-target inhibition of molecular targets.
Toxicity issues are oftennot detected until clinicaltrials, despite rigorouspreclinical testing in animalmodels.
Many potential drugs fail due to misclassification by animal models, which may not accurately predict human toxicity.
The high failure rate due to toxicity underscores the importance of improved methods for predicting and assessing drug safety early on.
"Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of, who do the things no one can imagine."
- Alan Turing
The Investor Problem
Amid economic instability and previous biotech setbacks, investors, especially Limited Partners, face declining confidence. Bottom line is that it becomes harder to close future funding rounds because of this higher historic risk profile associated to life science projects.
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Traditionally, biotech investments centred on conventional business due diligence often overlook or don’t place heavy emphasis on meticulous technical analysis due to high associated cost.
Undesirable pharmacokinetics and toxicity are major reasons for drug development failures, with safety and efficacy of major concern for project success, recognizing drug ADMET properties early reduces clinical phase failure rates.
What The Numbers Show
$6M
Average spend on pre-clinical toxicology studies
12
Drug discovery can take 12 years and cost $2.6 billion.
90%
Clinical drugs fail, costing investors & partners millions
45%
Fail because of limited pre-clinical efficacy
30%
Fail because of unmanageable toxicity