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    Glossary Drug Repositioning

    finding new uses for existing medications

    Drug Repositioning, also known as Drug Repurposing, is the process of finding new therapeutic uses for existing medications. This approach can save time and resources in drug development because the safety profiles of these drugs are already well understood, allowing for quicker transitions to clinical trials for new indications.

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    1. Drug Repositioning: New Approaches and Future Prospects for Life-Debilitating Diseases and the COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak Viruses · 2020 · 170 citations
    2. Drug repositioning: current approaches and their implications in the precision medicine era Expert review of precision medicine and drug development · 2018 · 42 citations
    3. Network-Based Drug Repositioning: Approaches, Resources, and Research Directions Methods in molecular biology · 2018 · 39 citations
    4. Drug Repositioning with GraphSAGE and Clustering Constraints Based on Drug and Disease Networks Frontiers in Pharmacology · 2022 · 32 citations
    5. Drug repositioning using <i>in silico</i> compound profiling Future Medicinal Chemistry · 2009 · 24 citations
    6. Knowledge Mapping of Drug Repositioning’s Theme and Development Drug Design Development and Therapy · 2023 · 5 citations
    7. Drug Repositioning: New Opportunities for Older Drugs Elsevier eBooks · 2019 · 4 citations
    8. Peer Review #3 of "Computational drug repositioning based on side-effects mined from social media (v0.1)" 2016
    9. Drug repositioning approach to target ‎viral and host cells in terms of COVID-19 treatment: A review of ‎in vivo experiments and clinical studies Journal of experimental and clinical medicine · 2022
    10. Repositioning Old Drugs for New Battles: The Expanding Role of Drug Repurposing in Cancer, Inflammation, and Metabolic Disease. BIOMED natural and applied science · 2025 · 3 citations
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