Recent Advances in Drug Synthesis and Drug Discovery
A special issue of Biomedicines (ISSN 2227-9059). This special issue belongs to the section "Drug Discovery, Development and Delivery".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 1034
Special Issue Editor
Interests: virtual screening; drug discovery; small molecular inhibitors against intrinsic disorder proteins; phase separation and aggregation; ionotropic glutamate receptors channel; membrane-protein association
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to bring together researchers and practitioners, offering unprecedented opportunities for innovation and therapeutic development. This scope encompasses cutting-edge methodologies, technologies and strategies for the synthesis and discovery of novel drugs across various areas such as structural bioinformatics, drug design, computational and molecular cell biology. In drug discovery, interdisciplinary approaches involving computational biology, artificial intelligence, high-throughput screening and structural biology are the major areas, potentially aiding in the identification of potential drug candidates, target validation and optimization of drug-like properties. Recent findings from CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, small molecule targeting RNA and peptide therapeutics also provide novel approach for drug development. Indeed, targeting biomolecular condensates provides a new strategy for potential therapeutic intervention against neurodegenerative diseases.
We invite and welcome high-quality original research articles that report on novel and significant findings on inhibitors targeting protein, RNA, lipid, etc.
Dr. Ramesh Prasad
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- molecular docking
- high-throughput virtual screening
- computer-aided small molecular drug discovery
- machine learning for advancing computational chemistry
- molecular dynamics simulation
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