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Serendipity and VZV drug discovery

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posted on 2023-06-08, 21:49 authored by Marco Derudas, Christopher McGuigan
The discovery of drugs by chance (serendipity) has lead to the development of extremely important drugs in different fields, such as antibiotics, antitumoral and antipsychotic agents to name only a few examples. Recently, serendipity led to the discovery of a new category of compounds extremely active versus chickenpox-shingles (VZV) infections. The lead compound has been further developed and currently has successfully finished phase II clinical trials.

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  • Published

Journal

Drug Discovery Today: Technologies

ISSN

1740-6749

Publisher

Elsevier

Issue

3

Volume

9

Article number

e177-e181

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  • Chemistry Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2015-07-22

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