Role of hplc in drug discovery

In the drug discovery area, a compound with desired therapeutic properties is identified, and its structure may be modified by synthetic alterations to enhance potency and specificity or to decrease toxicity and undesired side effects. The lead drug candidate is then transitioned into the drug development area. Only small amounts of drug (typically less than a gram) are required to support the required studies in the Drug Discovery area. However larger amounts are required to support the studies conducted in the Drug Development area.

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Preformulation is a bridge between discovery and development where development scientists participate in selection and optimization of lead compounds. It is very critical at this stage to evaluate the developability of potential drug candidates in order to select new chemical entities and decrease the number of failures during future drug development. On average, only one out of ten new chemical entities (NCE) entering firstin-human testing reaches registration, approval, and marketing stage.

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Great efficiencies have been achieved in the drug discovery process as a result of technological advances in target identification, high-throughput screening, high-throughput organic synthesis, just-in-time in vitro ADME (absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion), and early pharmacokinetic screening of drug leads. These advances, spanning target selection all the way through to clinical candidate selection, have placed greater and greater demands on the analytical community to develop robust high-throughput methods.

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