Three interacting disciplines-molecular genetics, systems neuroscience, and translational medicine-have synergistic potential in CNS drug development and therapy.
Genomics continuously redefines its own frontiers and relies on techniques that are evolving at a prodigious speed. However, with developments in speed, accuracy and effectiveness of high-throughput DNA sequencing, increasing computational speed, and reduction in cost per computation, genomics research is now entering a second revolution. Doctors can now use DNA analysis to diagnose challenging cases, such as mysterious neurodevelopmental disorders, mitochondrial disease, or other disease or unknown origin in children. Genomics is possibly making its biggest strides in cancer medicine. Doctors can now sequence a patient's tumor to identify the best treatments.
Medicinal chemistry focuses on small organic molecules-encompassing synthetic organic chemistry and aspects of natural products and computational chemistry in close combination with chemical biology, enzymology and structural biology, aiming at the discovery and development of new therapeutic agents. This field involves chemical aspects of identification, and then systematic, thorough synthetic alteration of new chemical entities to make them suitable for therapeutic use. It includes synthetic and computational aspects of the study of existing drugs and agents in development in relation to their bioactivities (biological activities and properties), i.e., understanding their structure-activity relationships (SAR). Pharmaceutical chemistry is focused on quality aspects of medicines and aims to assure fitness for medicinal products.
Current advances in peptide science aims to overcome the physical barriers and technological barriers in the field of protein & peptide science and discuss forthcoming prospects in the area of synthesizing peptide drugs and vaccines, immunology aspects, diagnostics tools, nutraceutics, cosmetics, production and delivery of these molecules.
Palliative care focuses on providing patients with relief from the symptoms, pain, physical stress, and mental stress of a serious illness-whatever the diagnosis. The goal of such therapy is to improve the quality of life for both the patient and the family.