Drug Discovery Research in India: Current State and Future Prospects

Indian civilization developed a strong system of traditional medicine and was one of the first nations to develop a synthetic drug. In the postindependence era, Indian pharmaceutical industry developed a strong base for production of generic drugs. Challenges for the future are to give its tradition...

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Published in:ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters
Main Authors: Balganesh, Tanjore, Kundu, Tapas K., Chakraborty, Tushar Kanti, Roy, Siddhartha
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Chemical Society 2014
Subjects:
QD Chemistry
Indian
First Nations
Online Access:http://repository.ias.ac.in/131109/
http://repository.ias.ac.in/131109/1/ml500183c.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1021/ml500183c
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Summary:Indian civilization developed a strong system of traditional medicine and was one of the first nations to develop a synthetic drug. In the postindependence era, Indian pharmaceutical industry developed a strong base for production of generic drugs. Challenges for the future are to give its traditional medicine a strong scientific base and develop research and clinical capability to consistently produce new drugs based on advances in modern biological sciences.

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