Pharmaceutical Sciences and Innovations in Pharma Industry

Drug Discovery

In the fields of medicine, biotechnology and Pharmacology, drug discovery is the process by which new candidate medications are discovered. Modern drug discovery involves the identification of screening hits, medicinal chemistry and optimization of those hits to increase the affinity, selectivity (to reduce the potential of side effects), efficacy or potency,  metabolic stability  (to increase the half-life),  and oral bioavailability.