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Diseases. Environment. Infectious diseases. Behaviour. Genetics. Drug Discovery and BioMedical research in the 21 st century? The third revolution. The first revolution: The era of incidental discoveries 1930s-1960s. Felix Hoffman. Aspirin. Penicillin. The second revolution
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Diseases Environment Infectious diseases Behaviour Genetics
Drug Discovery and BioMedical research in the 21st century? The third revolution
The first revolution: The era of incidental discoveries 1930s-1960s
Felix Hoffman Aspirin
The second revolution 1970s-2000s High throughput – brute force screening of large libraries of chemical compounds
Statins Akira Endo
Future medicine- Targeted and Personally “fitted” medicine – Personalized Medicine
Medicine of the 21st Century – The 4P’s Medicine (Leroy Hood) Personalized, Predictive, Preventive, and Participatory Medicine Stem cell-based therapies
Future medicine- Targeted and Personally “fitted” and medicine - Personalized Medicine Breast Cancer – Estrogen Receptor Negative and Positive (predicts sensitivity to Tamoxifen)
Prevalence rate of ADR • Fatal ADRs appear to be between the fourthandsixth leading cause of death in the USA
Factors determining inter-individual variations in drug response High/Body Weight Genetic polymorphisms Sex Environmental Factors diet / smoking / comedications Age elderly children neonates Inter-individual Variability in Drug Response Disease Process Concomitant Disease Organ Function Liver, Kidney, Cardiac
The Human Genome Size of the entire Human Genome = 3 Billion Bases
Is the development of personalized drugs going to be straightforward? Here are some major obstacles Central dogma of flow of genetic information DNA (the human genome) Epigenetic control of gene expression RNA (the human transcriptome) Control by small RNAS Multiple post-translational modifications: phosphorylations, acetylations, amidations, glycosylations, ubiquitinations, etc. Proteins (the human proteome)
What are the obstacles – they appear to be broader and more complicated than just target identification and validation : • Many diseases (metabolic, psychiatric) are multi-genic, and the causative connection between the genes products is not clear. We are still missing a whole body of basic knowledge. • 2. Malignancies are characterized by genomic instability and therefore targets are not stable • 3. Human experimentation is complicated (HRT, stents) • 4. Lack of faithful animal models (neurodegeneration, cancer, metabolic diseases) • Cost of developing new drugs - legal liability (Vioxx/Celebrex), markets (new antibiotics), and patents protection (AIDS - South Africa, India) • End of blockbuster drugs era • 7. Bioethical problems of availability of genetic information