Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Design

Medicinal Chemistry deals with the design and discovery of new therapeutic chemicals and development of useful drugs. It focuses on organic molecules which are of reduced size constituting synthetic organic chemistry, computational chemistry and aspects of natural products. This stream of science is a combination of chemical biology, enzymology and structural biology which paves a way for discovery and development of innovative therapeutic products. Identification of Chemical aspects and then the systematic and synthetic alteration of chemical entities make them suitable for therapeutic use.