drugs

Developing new disease treatments can take years. That's why Northeastern researcher Deisy Morselli Gysi and her colleagues looked at existing drugs to treat COVID-19. And now they have four strong contenders. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Existing drugs may hold the key to curing COVID‑19

Developing new disease treatments can take years. That's why Northeastern researchers looked at existing drugs to treat COVID-19. And now they have four strong contenders.

by Eva Botkin-Kowacki April 28, 2021

Jaren Auclair, associate teaching professor of biotechnology at Northeastern, directs the Biopharmaceutical Analysis Training Laboratory. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

They’re using virtual reality to ensure patients get safe and effective drugs

Northeastern’s Biopharmaceutical Analysis Training Laboratory is teaming up with Agilent, a lab equipment manufacturer, to expand its ability to help researchers worldwide make quality drugs.

by Roberto Molar Candanosa May 5, 2020

Data visualation by: Albert-László Barabási. BarabasiLab 2019

Network scientists identify 40 new drugs to test against COVID-19

Researchers at Northeastern mapped the way proteins within human cells behave after a cell is hijacked by the virus to find new and existing drugs that might be able to fight COVID-19. The team is now working with other experimental researchers to begin testing those drugs.

by Roberto Molar Candanosa April 2, 2020

Alexandros Makriyannis, George D. Behrakis Chair of pharmaceutical biotechnology, recently imaged the full structure of cannabinoid receptor type 2, one of the two proteins responsible for the effects of cannabinoids in the body. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Cannabis will transform medicine—once we figure out how to get rid of its side effects

To produce better drugs for chronic pain, mental illness, and other health problems, Northeastern professor Alexandros Makriyannis is making new molecules in the lab—the same kind that give people a high when they smoke marijuana.

by Roberto Molar Candanosa February 19, 2020

Northeastern researcher Jared Auclair trains regulators around the world to speed up the approval of new drug treatments. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

It can take forever for life-saving drugs to be approved. Meet the biotech researcher trying to speed it up.

Some countries take months or even years to approve new drug treatments that patients need now. Northeastern researcher Jared Auclair trains regulators around the world to speed up the approval process.

by Allie Nicodemo June 12, 2018

November 19, 2012 - Leo Beletsky is an Assistant Professor of Law and Health Sciences in the School of Law and the Bouve College of Health Sciences.

3Qs: How to overcome the global drug problem

The United Nations General Assembly recently convened a special session on drugs, marking its first meeting on the topic since 1998. We asked Northeastern drug policy expert Leo Beletsky, who spoke at one of the session’s side events, to reflect on the historic meeting and the future of drug policy reform.

by Jason Kornwitz April 26, 2016