Drug Development for Cancer, Diabetes and Obesity
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 December 2021) | Viewed by 4181
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Interests: medicinal chemistry; synthetic organic chemistry; immunology of infectious diseases; medicinal and pharmaceutical chemistry; antibodies
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Dear Colleagues,
Currently, cancer, diabetes, and obesity are a group of diseases considered as pandemics, although their classification and cause are different. These diseases have a different impact on public health in each country. Although these diseases can be prevented and controlled, they are currently causing high morbidity and mortality rates. Despite its importance, current pharmacological treatment has unreliable efficacy and is producing numerous undesirable secondary effects. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop new therapeutic options that are safer and more effective.
In the last two decades, new strategies in drug discovery have been implemented to combat cancer, diabetes, and obesity. Despite these facts and the impressive advances in understanding the biology of these diseases, only a limited number of compounds are currently in clinical trials. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop new therapeutic options that will help to increase effectiveness, decrease cost, and facilitate availability.
This Research Topic seeks manuscripts dealing with novel approaches in the discovery and development of drugs for cancer, diabetes, and obesity. By considering both original research and review articles that could have an ever-increasing impact on the drug discovery pipeline, new trends could be discovered that would impact the field in the near future. Areas to be covered in this Research Topic may include but are not limited to the following:
- Bioactive compounds;
- Computer-aided drug design;
- Synthesis and biological activity of small molecules;
- Drug targets;
- Drug repositioning.
Prof. Dr. Gildardo Rivera Sanchez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cancer
- diabetes
- obesity
- drug design
- drug repositioning
- molecular docking
- molecular dynamic
- bioinformatics
- synthesis
- biomolecules
- targets
- in vitro assays
- in vivo assays
- small molecules
- peptides
- natural products
- mechanism of action
- preclinical assays
- clinical assays
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