Pharmaceutical Development

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PHARMACEUTICAL DEVELOPMENT
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Introduction
Pharmaceutical medicine is the branch which belong to medical discipline concerned
with the medical aspect of exploration, development, evaluation, registration, monitoring and
marketing of the medicine for wellbeing of the patients and for the benefit of the whole
community (Hughes et al. 2011). The discipline involves testing of the medicine, converting the
research of pharmaceutical drug into new medicine, ensuring safety of the participant in the
research trails, and evaluate medicine safety profile and the concerned benefit-risk of the
medicine. The pharmaceutical medicine is identified as a specialty of full medical since 2002
(Ramsundar et al. 2015). The discipline has given new insight to drug discovery and way of
treatment of deadly disease.
There are various function of drug discovery process which has been outline below:
1. Discovery and development process- The first function of drug discovery process is the
selection of molecule or target which is either genetic or cellular chemical in the body.
Such molecule should be involved in particular disease (Frye et al. 2015). The
combination of such molecule is called lead which have elements required for new
medicine. Next lead optimization is done that compare the features of the target molecule
which has high probability of success. This phase involves testing of the molecule which
is compatible of drug discovery.
2. Preclinical research- The second function of drug development process involves pre-
clinical testing which comprises of in-vitro and in-vivo testing. In-vivo testing the drug
molecules is tested in the animal species or in the cell cultures. In vitro testing involves
examination of the drug in test tube in lab. The research needs approval from FDA by