Drug design

Drug design

Invention of a new pharmaceutical drug based on the Knowledge of the biological target

Pharmaceutical drug or Medication or Medicament or Medicine

Classes of Medications

Chemical properties

Route of administration

Biological system

Therapeutic effects

Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical classification system (ATC)

ATC system

1. Antipyretics: Reducing fever

2. Analgesics: Reducing pain

3. Antimalarial drugs: Treating malaria

4. Antibiotics: Inhibiting germ growth

5. Antiseptics: Germ prevention near burns, cuts and wounds

Strategies

1. Ligand based

2. Structure based

Strategies