Chemistry · Medicinal & Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Drug Design

A topic within Medicinal & Pharmaceutical Chemistry, itself one of 8 topics in that field and part of Chemistry.

Reading on Drug Design

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Lecture1988

Drugs from Emotional and Chemical Discoveries

James W. Black

Describes designing beta-blockers and H2-receptor antagonists by rational modification of a natural ligand's structure, rather than by screening large compound collections.

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Lecture1900

Croonian Lecture: On Immunity with Special Reference to Cell Life

Paul Ehrlich

Introduces the side-chain theory of immunity and the idea that a drug acts by binding a specific cellular receptor, founding receptor-based pharmacology.

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