Abstract
This report focuses on two key pharmaceutical target classes-GPCRs and Ion Channels. GPCRs and Ion Channels are important targets. They are associated with a number of disease areas and are currently associated with blockbuster pharmaceutical sales status.
Identifying future direction of industry growth opportunities in these spaces can be challenging. This report characterizes the opportunity in the GPCR and Ion Channel spaces with respect to the following metrics:
- Technologies for interrogation
- Major Products on the market
- Vendors in the space
- Market opportunity, size, and growth (both qualitative and quantitative)
- This report draws upon a proprietary end-user survey conducted by D&MD to assess both the qualitative and quantitative market opportunity in the GPCRs and Ion Channels spaces. The raw data and annotations of these data are presented in this industry report and provide a snapshot into the direction of this market. This report also includes a SWOT analysis of the key market participants, which serves to complement the qualitative and quantitative analysis by offering a glimpse into the scope of opportunity in various niches.
Buy this report and:
- Identify qualitative trends-market drivers, market challenges, bottlenecks, opportunities-in the GPCRs and Ion Channels market segments
- Examine thorough quantitative analysis: market size, market shares of the various companies/technologies, and a cost per assay point, screening metrics
- Gain insight into growth opportunities for tools developers to develop reagents, technologies, hardware/instrumentation to address the growth in the GPCR and Ion Channels spaces
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Executive Summary
- Scope of this Report
- GPCRs and Ion Channels Target Space
- Snapshot of the Current GPCR Space
- Market Drivers, Challenges, and Opportunities Affecting Ion Channels and
GPCRs
- Ion Channels
- GPCRs
- Ranking of Important Research Topics in the GPCR Space for Pharmaceutical
- Industry Researchers versus Academic Researchers
Chapter 2: Market Analysis of Ion Channels
- Scope of this Chapter
- Introduction
- Price per Data Point for the Various Ion Channel Segments
- Ion Channel Interrogation Capital Equipment and Consumable Budgets
- Market Size for Ion Channel Instrumentation: 2006, 2007, and 2008
- hERG Liability Screening Market Metrics
- Types of Ion Channels Being Studied
- Ligand-Gated Ion Channels
- Voltage-Gated Ion Channels
- Fee-for-Service Business Model in the Ion Channels Space
- Segments in the Ion Channels Space That Offer Growth Opportunities
Chapter 3: G Protein-coupled Receptors (GPCRs): Qualitative and
- Quantitative Market Analyses
- Scope of this Chapter
- Introduction to the Space
- Market Analysis: GPCR Analysis and Interrogation
- R&D Efforts Directed at GPCR Subclasses and The Various GPCR
- Interrogation/Analysis Technologies
- Size of GPCR Interrogation/Analysis Screening Campaigns
- Qualitative Impressions of the GPCR Marketplace, Trends Therein, and Open
- Questions
- Side Bar: Subclass-based GPCR Market Segmentation
Chapter 4: Ion Channels: Classification & Structure Technologies for Interrogation
- Scope of This Chapter
Chapter 5: G Protein-coupled Receptors (GPCRs):
Classification & Structure Receptor-mediated Signaling Technologies for Interrogation
- Scope of This Chapter
Chapter 6: GPCR and Ion Channel Classes: An End-user Survey of Growth Opportunities, Market Trends, and Quantitative Analyses
- Survey Methodology

