Laboratory of Drug Discovery, Center for Research and Education on Drug Discovery

Research

4. Library construction useful for drug development

Nowadays, in academia, the research of drug discovery leads by screening using chemical library have started to be used quite often. The main factor to decide whether it would be successful or not is not the number of libraries but their quality, we presume. To create logically what has not been acquired from nature is one of the strength of organic syntheses. Focusing on the features of compounds mimicking the structures or functions of natural products and those of target molecules such as protein-protein interaction, which is the top priority so far in drug development chemistry, we will construct our original library and develop drug discovering chemistry using them.

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