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From Idea to Market: The Drug Design, Development & Approval Process

Kumar Babu G

A new drug discovery, design and development is a complex series of processes. It involves a lot of stakeholders, astronomical amounts of funds, a lot of time and energy. Though, the process of drug development involves much effort by the researchers, there is very less probability that a new gets approval from the regulatory authorities like US FDA. This review article discusses the complexities involved and various challenges of new drug development and approval processes.