Innovative Approaches in Drug Discovery

Bhushan Patwardhan, PhD, received his degrees in biochemistry. He is a professor and the Director of the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India, where he is engaged in research in biomedical sciences, pharmaceutical biology, and evidence-based Ayurveda. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (India), the recipient of many prestigious orations, and founder and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine. He is the author of over one hundred scientific papers, holds eight international patents, and has received four thousand citations. His research on drug discovery and genomics has received high acclaim.

1. Need for Innovative Approaches2. Why and How Drugs Fail3. Holistic Drug Targeting4. Reverse Pharmacology5. Network Pharmacology and Multi-target Formulation6. Genome-driven Drug Discovery Process7. Pharmacogenomics8. Transcriptomics and Epigenomics9. Proteomics10.Chemical Informatics11.Vaccines and Immunodrugs Discovery12.Curcumin as an example of holistic targeting agent13.New Approaches to Quality and Safety of Traditional Medical Products14.Lifestyle and Behavioral Approaches15.Collaborative Strategies for Future Drug Discovery16.Righting the ship: The Data Reproducibility Conundrum