Drug Discovery and Biochemical Mechanisms
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2024 | Viewed by 893
Special Issue Editors
Interests: synthesis; drug discovery; medicinal chemistry; heterocyclic compounds; organic synthesis; hybrid molecules; small molecule synthesis; reagents; nanoparticles; microbiology
Interests: synthesis; organic and medical chemistry; IR and Raman spectroscopy; X-ray analysis; chemistry and spectroscopy of amino acids; peptides; Pt- and Pd- complexes; quantum chemistry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Researchers from academic institutions and pharmaceutical companies are always working toward the goal of discovering new medicines. The drug discovery area involves many different disciplines, such as biology, chemistry, pharmacology, biochemistry, and biotechnology. Numerous factors, such as toxicity, effectiveness, physicochemical characteristics, and bio/synthetic availability, may contribute to this challenge. Due to these factors, a constant goal is to find novel molecules with high potency and fewer negative effects.
This Special Issue, "Drug discovery and biochemical mechanism", will concentrate on the synthesis and/or biological effects of novel compounds created using medicinal chemistry methods, to improve activities against a variety of diseases, to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying life processes and disease from the protein structure to the signaling networks, and, finally, to apply this knowledge for creating new medications and therapies. Review (focused on the last ten years’ developments.) and research articles on related topics are welcomed.
Dr. Stoyanka A. Nikolova
Dr. Emiliya Demireva Cherneva
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- drug design and discovery
- biotechnology
- drug screening
- novel nonclinical models/approaches
- in silico laboratory and clinical development
- virtual screening
- biochemical mechanism
