… are driving the pharmaceutical industry to unprecedented … current status of the pharmaceutical
industry and reasons for … in drug failure and attempts to narrow gaps in current drug …

… and the improvement of existing drugs constitute the fuel that propels the firms in this industry.
The … the pharmaceutical industry’s most defining hallmarks. This is the only industry whose …

… also touch upon the issues faced by the pharmaceutical industry and the newer approaches
which have the potential to ensure the future sustainability of the pharmaceutical industry. …

… arm of the pharmaceutical industry. In bridging the gap between … Drug discovery has
become so complex that it cannot be contained within the confines of the pharmaceutical industry. …

Many early discoveries in the pharmaceutical industry were through serendipity. Later, targets
were mainly identified in animals and systematically exploited through the identification of …

… and regulators have been convinced that the “blockbuster model” for the industry was the
long-term way forward: drug discovery and development was known to be high risk, expensive …

… candidate remains a challenge that the pharmaceutical industry is trying to overcome. … by
industry to speed up the drug discovery process to find new therapeutics as well as discovery …

Introduction: Even though there have been substantial advances in our understanding of
biological systems, research in drug discovery is only just now beginning to utilize this type of …

… drug to progress from bench to market. Annually, the North American and European
pharmaceutical industries invest more than US$20 billion to identify and develop new drugs, about …

… of both academic and pharmaceutical drug discovery research. As a complement to prior
reviews that have defined this scientific field, we aim to provide an industry perspective on the …