The interdisciplinarity in drug discovery

Abstract

The discovery of new drugs has singular importance for the social development of humanity and for the economic health of the pharmaceutical industry, being the main investor in research of the sector, and thus, responsible for most of the innovations in medicines. The science, which by genesis, has the discovery of new drugs as the main challenge is Medicinal Chemistry. This is currently supported by Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Computational Chemistry and Pharmacology. The difficulty of the drug discovery process varies according to the degree of knowledge about the target disease and its complexity. However, regardless of the level of difficulty, the success of the process depends on the cross-connection between various areas of knowledge, to overcome its disciplinary limits and generate active interdisciplinarity, so that specific knowledge has been produced in a particular way to resolve the problem.