An overview of drug discovery and development

N Berdigaliyev, M Aljofan - Future medicinal chemistry, 2020‏ - Taylor & Francis
A new medicine will take an average of 10–15 years and more than US $2 billion before it
can reach the pharmacy shelf. Traditionally, drug discovery relied on natural products as the …

Chemotherapy of leishmaniasis: present challenges

SRB Uliana, CT Trinconi, AC Coelho - Parasitology, 2018‏ - cambridge.org
Cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis are amongst the most devastating infectious diseases
of our time, affecting millions of people worldwide. The treatment of these serious diseases …

Creating and screening natural product libraries

BAP Wilson, CC Thornburg, CJ Henrich… - Natural product …, 2020‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2020 The National Cancer Institute of the United States (NCI) has initiated a
Cancer Moonshot program entitled the NCI Program for Natural Product Discovery. As part …

[HTML][HTML] Future directions for the discovery of natural product-derived immunomodulating drugs: an IUPHAR positional review

CL Wainwright, MM Teixeira, DL Adelson… - Pharmacological …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Drug discovery from natural sources is going through a renaissance, having spent many
decades in the shadow of synthetic molecule drug discovery, despite the fact that natural …

Current drug therapy and pharmaceutical challenges for Chagas disease

J Bermudez, C Davies, A Simonazzi, JP Real, S Palma - Acta tropica, 2016‏ - Elsevier
One of the most significant health problems in the American continent in terms of human
health, and socioeconomic impact is Chagas disease, caused by the protozoan parasite …

Leishmaniasis drug discovery: recent progress and challenges in assay development

B Zulfiqar, TB Shelper, VM Avery - Drug discovery today, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•Leishmaniasis remains a neglected tropical disease, with a high unmet medical
need.•Therapeutic efficacy varies depending on the species of Leishmania parasite.•Leads …

Innovation in neglected tropical disease drug discovery and development

HB Weng, HX Chen, MW Wang - Infectious diseases of poverty, 2018‏ - mednexus.org
Background: Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are closely related to poverty and affect
over a billion people in develo** countries. The unmet treatment needs cause high …

[HTML][HTML] Current screening methodologies in drug discovery for selected human diseases

OM Lage, MC Ramos, R Calisto, E Almeida… - Marine drugs, 2018‏ - mdpi.com
The increase of many deadly diseases like infections by multidrug-resistant bacteria implies
re-inventing the wheel on drug discovery. A better comprehension of the metabolisms and …

Navigating drug repurposing for Chagas disease: Advances, challenges, and opportunities

EOJ Porta, K Kalesh, PG Steel - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
Chagas disease is a vector-borne illness caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma
cruzi (T. cruzi). It poses a significant public health burden, particularly in the poorest regions …

[HTML][HTML] Challenges in drug discovery targeting TriTryp diseases with an emphasis on leishmaniasis

LM Alcântara, TCS Ferreira, FR Gadelha… - International Journal for …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Tritryps diseases are devastating parasitic neglected infections caused by Leishmania spp.,
Trypanosoma cruzi and Trypanosoma brucei subspecies. Together, these parasites affect …