Obtaining adequate drug exposure in the brain is key to treating CNS diseases effectively. Recently, Dennis Koester gave us a crash course in CNS drug discovery in a Drug Hunter Flash Talk. Here, he sums up some key points on how to find compounds that cross the blood-brain barrier.
This table contains a list of some of the best drug discovery websites, online databases, and other online resources for drug hunters everywhere. If you have a suggestion for websites that we may have missed, let us know!
The INN Proposed List 131, released on August 11th, 2024, unveils the latest batch of drug names currently under consideration by the WHO. To streamline your review, we’ve distilled and compiled a searchable table for the small molecules that includes company identifiers, the newly proposed drug names, structural information, original patents, companies, and mechanisms of action, including structures that were previously undisclosed.
With increasingly tight timelines between bench and clinic, considering formulation strategies early on can give your program a competitive edge. This succinct formulations guide provides specific clinically-used examples of common formulations, and can help you select a formulation strategy most likely to succeed based on the properties of your compound.
This article contains a pharmacokinetics reference table ("PK cheat sheet") with common cross-species physiological parameters relevant to PK, including animal size, liver blood flow, kidney blood flow, and body volumes. When interpreting compound pharmacokinetic (PK) data, it's helpful to have reference values to compare experimental data to [...]