Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Pharmaceutical Chemistry Contemporary Topics

Medicinal chemistry is the discovery, design and synthesis of potential new drugs. Pharmaceutical chemistry is the development of these into optimized drugs that can be sold as pharmaceuticals.  The discovery and design of drugs requires an understanding of the biology of a disease to find an effective target for the drug, and will often involve computer-based in silico discovery and design of the drug structure. Research in Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry also includes the synthesis of the designed drugs, the optimization of their structures and action, and the development of methods for producing the drugs on a larger scale; these are challenging tasks which involve working in multidisciplinary teams with other members of the pharmacy research team as well as biologists, mathematicians and engineers.