42 citations
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January 2018 in “Expert review of precision medicine and drug development” This review discusses the integration of drug repurposing with personalized medicine through off-label prescribing and reports no new results, highlighting the potential for systematic exploration using omics technologies.
246 citations
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February 2021 in “Trends in Pharmacological Sciences” This review discusses drug repurposing strategies for rare diseases, highlighting methodologies, achievements, and challenges, but reports no new clinical results.
February 2025 in “Biointerface Research in Applied Chemistry” This study outlines the potential of drug repurposing to discover new uses for existing medications, emphasizing its cost-effectiveness, efficiency, and ability to address rare diseases by targeting novel biological mechanisms and relying on 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.
3 citations
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July 2025 in “BIOMED natural and applied science” This systematic review synthesizes the current state of drug repurposing, revealing its potential in various therapeutic areas like oncology and infectious diseases through insights from mechanistic studies and real-world evidence, and discusses emerging tools and challenges in the field.