The Bio Report

Pain takes both a personal toll on individuals who suffer from it and an economic toll on society more broadly. Though there is a wide range of drugs available to treat pain, it’s a problem that is still not well addressed. The need for new pain therapies has become even more acute as the problem of opioid addiction has grown. We spoke to Kerrie Brady, founder and chief business officer of Centrexion Therapeutics, which is developing a pipeline of non-opioid pain drugs. Brady discussed the problem of today’s existing pain therapies, how the company is using Big Data in its pursuit of new drugs, and its strategy of building out its pipeline.