How are new drugs discovered? The discovery and development of new drugs to treat disease.

Explains how new drugs are discovered and developed from the earliest ideas about the disease to the approval of a new drug for marketing. Outlines how hit compounds are identified and narrowed down to lead compounds, which are optimized to make a candidate drug. The timing and need for preclinical testing and clinical trials is covered, followed by the regfulatory processes that must be satisfied for a drug to be approved for use in human patients.
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