The Diabetic Wound Healing Model That Keeps Earning Its Keep
Chronic wounds in diabetic patients are one of the costliest quietly growing burdens in medicine. Roughly 15 to 25 percent of people with diabetes...
Stroke Models Need Diversity: What Age, Sex, and Comorbidity Change About the Data
Stroke remains one of the highest attrition areas in drug development. Despite decades of preclinical programs showing neuroprotective efficacy in...
Biomarker Strategy in Large Animal Preclinical Studies: What Actually Translates
Biomarkers have become the connective tissue of modern drug development. They anchor mechanism of action claims, support dose selection, enable...
Beyond Rodents: How Translational Pig Models Are De-Risking Pain Programs
The attrition rate for analgesic compounds remains stubbornly high. By some estimates, fewer than 2% of preclinical pain candidates reach approval, a...
The Göttingen Minipig in GLP Toxicology: A Practical Guide for Program Planning
Species selection for GLP toxicology is one of those decisions that quietly shapes everything downstream. It influences study timelines, regulatory...
In Vitro Is Not Enough: Why Large Animal Models Still Drive Pain Drug Approvals
The last five years have seen remarkable advances in in vitro and ex vivo pain research. Human DRG organoids, iPSC-derived sensory neurons,...
From Pig Model to FDA Approval: Lessons from the ZYNRELEF Story
The gap between preclinical efficacy and clinical success in pain drug development is well-documented and widely lamented. Fewer than 2% of analgesic...
Choosing Your Preclinical Species: How Rodents, Dogs, NHPs, and Pigs Compare in Pain Research
Every preclinical pain program begins with a species decision, which shapes everything downstream, including endpoint selection, translational...
Sex Differences in Pain Research: What Your Preclinical Program May Be Missing
In 2016, the NIH mandate on sex as a biological variable (SABV) formalized what pain researchers had known for years: males and females process pain...