"Drug Discovery" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The process of finding chemicals for potential therapeutic use.
| Descriptor ID |
D055808
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.295 H01.158.703.007.675 H01.181.466.675
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Drug Discovery".
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Drug Discovery" by people in this website by year, and whether "Drug Discovery" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
| 2009 | 30 | 23 | 53 |
| 2010 | 24 | 27 | 51 |
| 2011 | 38 | 25 | 63 |
| 2012 | 39 | 27 | 66 |
| 2013 | 41 | 29 | 70 |
| 2014 | 40 | 35 | 75 |
| 2015 | 40 | 27 | 67 |
| 2016 | 41 | 29 | 70 |
| 2017 | 37 | 37 | 74 |
| 2018 | 34 | 26 | 60 |
| 2019 | 24 | 22 | 46 |
| 2020 | 23 | 36 | 59 |
| 2021 | 30 | 30 | 60 |
| 2022 | 5 | 17 | 22 |
| 2023 | 9 | 14 | 23 |
| 2024 | 17 | 12 | 29 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Drug Discovery" by people in Profiles.
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A multiplex method for rapidly identifying viral protease inhibitors. Mol Syst Biol. 2025 Feb; 21(2):158-172.
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PROTACs as Therapeutic Modalities for Drug Discovery in Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer. Annu Rev Pharmacol Toxicol. 2025 Jan; 65(1):375-396.
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Introduction to the Theme "Novel Therapeutics with the Potential to Advance Health Care". Annu Rev Pharmacol Toxicol. 2025 Jan; 65(1):1-5.
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Deep phenotypic profiling of neuroactive drugs in larval zebrafish. Nat Commun. 2024 Nov 17; 15(1):9955.
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Development of an Antiviral Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Database (avMpNp Database) from Biodiversity. Chem Biodivers. 2024 Dec; 21(12):e202400285.
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Konnektor: A Framework for Using Graph Theory to Plan Networks for Free Energy Calculations. J Chem Inf Model. 2024 Nov 25; 64(22):8396-8403.
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Impact of CRISPR in cancer drug discovery. Science. 2024 Oct 25; 386(6720):378-379.
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A framework for translating tauopathy therapeutics: Drug discovery to clinical trials. Alzheimers Dement. 2024 Nov; 20(11):8129-8152.
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Large library docking identifies positive allosteric modulators of the calcium-sensing receptor. Science. 2024 Sep 20; 385(6715):eado1868.
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An artificial intelligence accelerated virtual screening platform for drug discovery. Nat Commun. 2024 Sep 05; 15(1):7761.