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Accelerating Drug Discovery: How Blocks Transforms Life Sciences Research

Chris Barry, Founder & CEO 4 February 2025 7 min read

What is Blocks?

Blocks is Make More Digital's platform for building intelligent business applications. It's modular, composable technology that lets organisations configure powerful workflows, AI agents, and data pipelines—without the traditional development overhead.

Instead of months of custom development, Blocks lets you assemble pre-built components tailored to your industry. Think of it as enterprise software that adapts to how you work, not the other way around.

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The Life Sciences Imperative

Life sciences is where innovation directly saves lives. As an IS-8 priority sector, the UK's pharmaceutical and biotech industries are critical to both health outcomes and economic growth.

But drug development is notoriously slow and expensive. The average new drug takes over a decade and billions of pounds to bring to market. Any acceleration in this process has enormous human and economic value.

How Blocks Accelerates Life Sciences

Research Pipeline Management

Blocks lets research organisations configure how compounds flow through development:

  • Visual trial phase builder - Design clinical workflows without code
  • Automated regulatory documentation - Generate FDA/EMA submissions
  • Real-time trial monitoring - Track patient recruitment and outcomes
  • Complete audit trails - GxP-compliant by design

AI-Powered Discovery

Our AI tools help researchers:

  • Analyse complex biological datasets
  • Identify promising compound candidates
  • Predict trial outcomes based on historical data
  • Automate literature review and analysis

Lab Operations

Blocks streamlines day-to-day research:

  • Equipment scheduling and maintenance
  • Sample tracking and chain of custody
  • Protocol management and reproducibility
  • Integration with LIMS and lab equipment

Results for Life Sciences Companies

A pharmaceutical company using Blocks achieved:

  • 40% improvement in trial enrollment
  • 30% reduction in regulatory submission time
  • Significant acceleration in early-stage research

Supporting UK Life Sciences

The UK Government's investment in life sciences recognises the sector's importance. Blocks helps by:

  • Accelerating research through intelligent automation
  • Reducing compliance burden with built-in GxP support
  • Enabling collaboration across research sites
  • Protecting IP with secure data handling
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