Current Issues of Pharmacy and Medical Sciences

Curr Issues Pharm Med Sci., Vol. 31, No. 2, 69-75

Ewa Kedzierska¹*, Lila Dabkowska¹, Tomasz Krzanowski², Ewa Gibula¹,
Jolanta Orzelska-Gorka¹, Monika Wujec²

 10.1515/cipms-2018-0020

© 2018 Author(s). This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonComercial-No Derivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/)

Abstract

How to get a new drug to market? How much time does it take to go from the idea to implementation? In this study we followed the path drugs take from synthesis to introduction to the market. In doing so, articles in the PubMed and the Google Scholar database have been analyzed using the keywords: drug development, drug design, lead compound, preclinical trials, clinical trials. The available literature was subjectively selected due to its usefulness in the topic. Based on the obtained articles, we presented the stages that a would-be drug takes on the way from the idea to marketing. Herein, it is underlined that the process of creating new drugs is long, extremely labor-intensive, and involves many restrictions in the context of the use of animals, as well as humans.

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Keywords

drug development, drug design, lead compound, preclinical trials, clinical trials.