Seminars

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY, SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY.

Drug Discovery: From Concept to Clinic.

March 23, 2015l Hit 483
Date : April 2, 2015 16:30 ~
Speaker : Dr. Peppi Prasit(Inception Sciences)
Location :
Drug discovery and development are the essential driving forces for drug therapy. It is an expensive, long and high-risk business taking 10–15 years and is associated with a high attrition rate. At the preclinical stage, drug discovery is an iterative process between chemistry, biology and drug metabolism, refining the molecular properties until a compound suitable for advancing to human is found. Typically, about one in a thousand synthesized compounds is ever selected for progression to the clinic and out of these approximately only 1 in 10 drugs that start the clinical phase will make it to the market. The talk will focus a couple of successful examples, one in a large pharma setting and another in a startup biotech setting.