2nd Edition of Natural Products for Drug Discovery and Development

Dear Colleagues,

The first edition of this Special Issue, “Natural Products for Drug Discovery and Development”, was published in Processes in 2021 and comprised 12 interesting papers (1 editorial, 9 articles, and 2 reviews), attracting many potential authors and readers with more than 16,000 views. Due to the large success of the first volume and the high interest in this topic, we decided to propose a second edition of this Special Issue, entitled “2nd Edition of Natural Products for Drug Discovery and Development”.

Natural products are defined as chemical compounds produced by living organisms, including plants, animals, insects, and microbes. For many years, natural products and their structural analogs have played key roles in drug discovery and development for many therapeutic areas, such as cancer, infectious diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and metabolic disorders. Some best-known examples include penicillin from Penicillium moulds as antibiotics, artemisinin from the plant Artemisia annua for malaria, ω-conotoxin MVIIA from the marine snail Conus magus for pain, and paclitaxel from the plant Taxus brevifolia for cancer.

This Special Issue of Processes, devoted to the topic of "Natural Products for Drug Discovery and Development", invites high-quality research papers and reviews focusing on new understandings and technologies being used in natural product research for drug discovery and therapeutic applications.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• The discovery, identification, and biological evaluation of natural products;
• Structure–activity relationships;
• Target identification;
• Molecular mechanisms;
• New technologies to improve the drug discovery process of natural products.

Dr. Antony Kam
Dr. Shining Loo
Prof. Dr. Lee Simon Ming-Yuen
Guest Editors

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• natural product
• discovery
• structure–activity relationship
• herbal medicine
• molecular mechanism
• high-throughput screening
• target identification