Pharmaceutical Education and Practice

Drug Discovery, Design & Development: Challenges and Approaches

Drug Discovery changes with the change in the dosage forms and the environmental conditions or demand. It involves a wide range of scientific disciplines including biology, chemistry and pharmacology. Drug design involves the design of such molecules that are similar to the bio molecular target site in shape and charge in order to bind to it. The process of bringing a new pharmaceutical drug into the market once a lead compound has been identified through the process of drug discovery is called drug development and the research related to drug development is called drug development research.