Month / octobre 2022

Drug repurposing (also called drug repositioning) is the process of investigating new therapeutic purposes for already existing drugs. The drugs of interest may either be commercially available or still in clinical trials – what they have in common is that their mechanism of action is understood, and their efficacy and (potential) side effects in humans are already known. Thus, compared to “conventional” drug development programs using novel drugs, drug repurposing is much faster and cheaper…