Mimansa Kandhwal
Chitkara University, India
Title: Drug repurposing approaches for depression: Rationale and its clinical experience
Biography
Biography: Mimansa Kandhwal
Abstract
Drug discovery is a very time consuming, tedious and expensive process lasting for about two or more decades. This complexity of the process of drug discovery and sluggish pace at which new drugs are being discovered draw the attention of scientists to redefine the whole process with the help of drug repurposing. Usage of old drug moieties in any other disorder with all new mechanism is defined as repurposing. Repurposing of drugs knocks out the pre-clinical phase and related studies in order to give that molecule a redefined purpose. Data from these studies may be used in discovering newer molecules in order to save human effort, time and expenses as well.