From Old To New: Trends In Drug Repurposing For Modern Medicine
January 2024
in “
African Journal of Biomedical Research
”
Studysummary 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.
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Drug repurposing is a strategy that seeks new therapeutic uses for existing drugs, capitalizing on the pleiotropic effects of biological entities like transcripts, proteins, and genes. This approach has gained attention for its potential to provide novel treatments for unmet medical needs, offering benefits such as faster development timelines, reduced costs, and established safety profiles. The review discusses current trends in drug discovery and future perspectives on repurposed drugs.
