Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Design

Structure-based drug design, virtual screening

Targeted cancer therapies are drugs or other medicinal substances which blocks the growth and spread of cancer by interrupting with the specific molecules called molecular targets which are involved in the growth, progression and spread of cancer. Therefore, development of novel-tumor specific ligand or pharmaceutical nanocarriers is highly desirable. Anti-cancer drugs are also called Anti neoplastic-agents or Chemotherapeutic-agents. Targeted delivery of drugs to tumors represents a significant advance in Cancer diagnosis and therapy and uses information about a person’s genes and proteins to prevent, diagnose and treat disease.