Advances in Drug Discovery Research in Europe

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last few years, new technological and scientific developments have been revolutionizing the drug discovery process. Phenotypic and target-based medium-to-high-throughput screening of compound libraries are currently the main technologies used to identify new hit compounds. However, they have been recently employed in combination with techniques founded in genomics, molecular and structural biology and molecular modeling, enabling not only the design of better and safer compounds, but also the understanding of fundamental cellular and molecular mechanisms in different disease states.

In the present Special Issue, we invite authors based in Europe to submit research articles enclosing a wide range of topics in the field of drug discovery, including, but not limited to, the design and synthesis of new chemical entities, biological and toxicological screenings with synthetic or natural compounds and development of drug delivery systems. High-quality reviews in the field will also be accepted.

Dr. Sofia Benfeito
Dr. Daniel Chavarria
Prof. Dr. Fernanda Borges
Dr. Fernando Cagide
Guest Editors

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