Drug repositioning : bringing new life to shelved assets and existing drugs / / edited by Michael J. Barratt, Donald E. Frail.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Barratt, Michael J.; Frail, Donald.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xx, 477 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Drug repositioning : the business case and current strategies to repurpose shelved candidates and marketed drugs / John Arrowsmith and Richard Harrison -- Opportunities and challenges associated with developing additional indications for clinical development candidates and marketed drugs / Donald Frail and Michael Barratt -- Clinical and operational considerations in repositioning marketed drugs and drug candidates / Damian O'Connell, David Sequeira, and Maria Miller -- Regulatory considerations and strategies for drug repositioning / Ken Phelps -- Computational and bioinformatic strategies for drug repositioning / Richard Mazzarella and Craig Webb -- Mining scientific and clinical databases to identify novel uses for existing drugs / Christos Andronis ... [et al.] -- Predicting the polypharmacology of drugs : identifying new uses through chemoinformatics, structural informatics and molecular modeling based approaches / Li Xie ... [et al.] -- Systematic phenotypic screening for novel synergistic combinations: a new paradigm for repositioning existing drugs / Margaret Lee -- Phenotypic in vivo screening to identify new, unpredicted indications for existing drugs and drug candidates / Michael Saporito, Christopher Lipinski, and Andrew Reaume -- Old drugs yield new discoveries : examples from the prodrug, chiral switch and site-selective deuteration strategies / Adam Morgan ... [et al.] -- Repurposing drugs for tropical diseases : case studies and open-source screening initiatives / Curtis Chong -- Drug repositioning efforts by non-profit foundations -- Business development strategies in the repositioning industry / Aris Persidis and Elizabeth Stark -- A case study in drug repositioning : Sosei / Akinori Mochizuki and Makiko Aoyama.