Pharmaceutical Research & Drug Discovery

Drug discovery and Development

Drug Discovery may be a branch in pharmacy during which invention of potent drug entities is that the important role to be involved. The major part of drug design involves the identification of characteristic diagnostic biomarkers such as a protein responsible for the disease or disorder and then developing a drug molecule of therapeutic potency that targets it. The process involves various branches of pharmacology coalesce with biotechnology, bioinformatics, molecular biology, nanotechnology and biochemistry that ultimately leads to the production of molecules of therapeutic value. Despite the advancements in modern technologies and an understanding of the biological systems, the drug discovery process is still a lengthy and expensive task. There are only a few therapeutic drugs that pass the test and enter the market but today's accelerated studies using computational drug design techniques speed up the process of drug discovery.

• Diagnostic markers as therapeutic targets
• Approaches in target identification and validation
• In silico pharmacology
• Drug design and molecular modelling
• Molecular docking studies