This review article discusses current trends and future perspectives in drug repurposing, highlighting its potential to discover novel treatments for unmet medical needs by identifying new uses for existing drugs, which benefits from faster development timelines and established safety profiles.
January 2024 in “African Journal of Biomedical Research” This review article explores the use of drug repurposing as a strategy in drug discovery, highlighting its advantages such as quicker development, cost reduction, known safety profiles, and potential for addressing unmet medical needs.
This source discusses the growing trend of drug repurposing, a strategy that seeks new uses for existing drugs to overcome challenges like lengthy timelines and high costs in the traditional drug development process.
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July 2025 in “Molecular Diversity” This review outlines drug repurposing as an efficient, low-cost strategy to identify new uses for existing drugs, highlighting various computational and experimental approaches as well as publicly available databases to aid in personalized pharmacotherapy.
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September 2024 in “Perspectives in Clinical Research” This article discusses drug repurposing as a strategy to find new uses for existing medications, highlighting its potential benefits like faster development and lower costs, while also addressing challenges such as drug specificity, ethical concerns, and regulatory issues.