Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Drug Design and Drug Discovery

Pharmaceutical or medicinal chemistry involves the designing (drug design) and synthesis of biologically active molecules/ drugs. Drug discovery is a complex, risky and costly process where as drug design is an inventive process of finding new medications based on knowledge and research. Drug development and discovery includes preclinical research on cell-based and animal models and clinical trials on humans, and finally move forward to the step of obtaining regulatory approval in order to market the drug.