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Professor Ron Quinn AM, Principal Research Leader at the Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery.
A new method of identifying molecular targets to fight disease could help accelerate future drug development new Griffith University research published in Scientific Reports has found.
“Even in this molecular era of drug discovery, there remain new investigational drugs whose molecular targets are unclear, restricting their optimisation and broad use in disease,” Professor Quinn said.
Protein 4J57 – “Plasmodium falciparum thioredoxin reductase-thioredoxin complex”
“A key step in the discovery of new pharmaceutical drugs and developing them to useful treatments for patients is, therefore, the identification of the molecular target while, at the same time, ensuring the drug does not interact with other gene products that would cause side effects.”