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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 McGuiganThe 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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Drug Discovery Today: TechnologiesISSN
1740-6749Publisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
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3Volume
9Article number
e177-e181Department affiliated with
- Chemistry Publications
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2015-07-22Usage metrics
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