1.1 Drug Discover, Development & Regulatory Processes Objectives Flashcards
Edward Jenner
- 1796
- Paved the way for modern vaccines against infectious diseases
William Withering
- 1700
- Introduced digitalis (treat cardiovascular disease)
John Hunter
- 1768
- Vitamin C deficiency leads to scurvy
Louis Pasteur
- 1864
- Discovered microorganisms caused disease & devised a vaccine against rabies
Recombinant DNA (rDNA)
- 1970
- rDNA production —> biotechnology industry
Different types of modern drug discovery
- Human based screening
- Animal-based screening
- Bacteria-based screening
- Tissue-based screening
- Mechanisms/Structure-based
- Molecular & cell based
- Genomics-based patient profiling
Human based screening
Medicinal plants
Animal-based screening
Anesthetics
Bacteria-based screening
Penicillin
Tissue-based screening
G protein-coupled receptor
Mechanisms/Structure-based
HIV
Molecular & cell based
Kinase inhibitors
Genomics-based patient profiling
miRNA profiling, RNA sequencing—>RNA therapeutics, gene medicine, coronavirus vaccine
List the # of steps involved in drug discovery & development
- Disease pathology & molecular targets
- Target identification
- Assay development
- Hit to lead compounds
- Lead Optimization
- Preclinical development
- Clinical trials
Disease pathology & molecular target
The research that needs to be done to understand the condition
Target identification
“ID area” in a molecule to target the disease
Assay development
In vitro study to understand the effect on the target ID
Hit to lead compounds
Narrow down to most effective candidate in vitro
Preclinical development
Animal trials
Clinical trials
Human trials
What causes diseases?
- Bacterial infection
- Host imbalance
Host imbalance
- Inhibit overactive proteins
- kinase inhibitors - Replace/substitute underactive protein
- insulin - Identify gene causing the disease
What are the methods of drug discovery?
- Random untargeted screening
- High-throughput screening
- Molecular modification of known agents
- Mechanism-based drug design
Random untargeted screening
ID the unknown compounds in a sample (w/o the aid of any initial additional informations)
High-throughput screening
Rapidly testing thousands to millions of samples for biological activity in organism, cellular, pathway or molecular level