Natural-Product-Inspired Drug Discovery

Dear Colleagues, 

Natural products are the most bioactive ingredients of herbal medicines. Natural products play a critical role in the research and development of new drugs. In the past few decades, many new drugs have been designed or synthesized on natural compounds from plants, microbes and animals. Combinatorial chemistry techniques are employed to create drug-like natural products for screening libraries. Molecular biological approaches allow novel natural compounds to be developed in bacteria and yeasts. Various screening platforms are being constructed to improve discovery campaigns for drugs from natural products. Along with the development of omics techniques, the process of discovering natural-product-derived drugs is being improved efficiently and effectively. Technical drawbacks have been lessened in the research on natural products for drug development, leading to the availability of an increasing number of trace natural products for further, affordable research. Following on from these advances, this Special Issue, ‘Natural Products Inspired Drug Discovery’, invites research papers on the isolation, identification, pharmacology and toxicology of natural products, including the in vitro and in vivo pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics and bioactivity of natural products.

Dr. Weihua Huang
Guest Editor

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• pharmacokinetics
• pharmacodynamics
• separation
• identification
• natural products
• preclinical study
• bioanalysis
• bioactive compounds