{"id":662,"date":"2010-04-17T13:31:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T17:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.org\/cofes-report-can-cad-guys-change-the-pharmaceutical-industry"},"modified":"2010-04-17T13:31:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T17:31:48","slug":"cofes-report-can-cad-guys-change-the-pharmaceutical-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2010\/04\/cofes-report-can-cad-guys-change-the-pharmaceutical-industry.html","title":{"rendered":"COFES Report: Can CAD guys change the pharmaceutical industry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday morning at COFES in Scottsdale Arizona we had a very unusual speaker:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: &#39;Lucida Grande&#39;, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; font-size: 12px; color: #333333; \">Omid Moghadam<\/span><\/div>\n<div>Research Fellow<\/div>\n<div>Harvard Medical School<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>That&#39;s right &#8212; Harvard Medical School. &#0160;So why a Harvard Medical School guy at the Congress On the Future of Engineering Software?<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Because Omid, an ex-Intel exec, believes that CAD software vendors have just the right skills to build a new generation of tools for predictive design of new pharmaceutical drugs. &#0160;Wow.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>This was a *really cool* talk &#8212; hats off to the COFES organizers.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Omid&#39;s thesis is that drug discovery is still done in this trial and error way &#8212; test a whole bunch of compounds and see what works. &#0160;Long times, lots of money, and even then it may not work on all people.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Omid believe drugs should be designed not found. &#0160;There have been some attempts to do this, but they have not worked out very well. &#0160;Omid thinks that biochemists just don&#39;t understand development or business models for software products. &#0160;He thinks CAD software people have the right skills to do this.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Wow &#8212; cool idea.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Thanks Omid for a great, smart, thought-provoking talk.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>&#8211; Jon<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday morning at COFES in Scottsdale Arizona we had a very unusual speaker: Omid Moghadam Research Fellow Harvard Medical School That&#39;s right &#8212; Harvard Medical School. &#0160;So why a Harvard Medical School guy at the Congress On the Future of<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2010\/04\/cofes-report-can-cad-guys-change-the-pharmaceutical-industry.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solidworks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}