Design A Conceptual Approach

Successful drug design is multi-step, multidisciplinary and multi-year. Dmg discovery is not an inevitable consequence of fundamental basic science dmg design is not merely a technology that generates dmgs for himians on the basis of biological advances—if it 

Basic concepts about drugs, receptors, and drug-receptor interactions (chapters 1-3). 

Basic concepts about drug-receptor interactions applied to human disease (chapters 4-9). 

The first phase comprises the essential building blocks of drug design and may be divided into three logical steps  

Know what properties turn a molecule into a drug (chapter 1). 

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Vinck, D. Jeantet, A. 1995, Mediating and Commissioning Objects in the Sociotechnical Process of Product Design a conceptual approach, In Designs, Networks and Strategies, Maclean, D. Saviotti, P. Vinck, D. (Eds), pp. 111-129, vol. 2, COST A3, Social Sciences, EC Directorate General Science R D, Bmxelles. 

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