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Lantern Pharma CEO Panna Sharma [Courtesy: Lantern Pharma]
Dallas Biotech Launches Open-Access AI Tool Targeting One of Brain Drug Discovery’s Toughest Hurdles
by Quincy Preston | Aug 20, 2025
With just 2% to 6% of small-molecule drugs able to cross the blood-brain barrier, researchers and drugmakers face steep odds. Lantern Pharma’s tool, the company’s CEO says, could be “a paradigm shift” in developing treatments for conditions ranging from brain cancers to Parkinson’s disease.
by Lance Murray |
Jan 19, 2024
Marc Chamberlain, M.D., has been appointed as the Chief Medical Officer at Starlight Therapeutics.
Starlight Therapeutics is a Dallas-based Lantern Pharma subsidiary focused exclusively on the clinical development of therapies for central nervous system and brain cancers with limited or no effective therapeutic options.
In his role as CMO, Chamberlain will oversee the company’s upcoming clinical trials focused on several serious and complex brain-related conditions: glioblastoma and other high-grade gliomas (aggressive types of brain tumor), brain metastases in adults (secondary brain tumors originating from cancer elsewhere in the body), and two types of pediatric brain tumors — atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumors (ATRT) and diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG)....
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