Emerging Aspects in Drug Discovery

Dear Colleagues,

With the large number of diseases still present worldwide that remain difficult to treat, drug discovery is a pressing endeavor. However, finding effective therapeutic agents remains onerous and time consuming. How could new approaches, technologies, and perhaps targets facilitate the process of identifying, characterizing, developing, and marketing drugs? This Topic on “Emerging Aspects in Drug Discovery” welcomes submissions of research and review articles that touch upon—but are not limited to—the following areas: novel screening strategies and synthetic chemistry approaches, as well as emerging drug targets which can be any macromolecule, RNA, DNA, or protein. We hope this Topic will serve as a springboard for a continuous increase in the rates of approved drugs for treating different diseases.

Dr. Morkos Henen
Dr. Quentin Vicens
Dr. Beat Rolf Vögeli
Topic Editors