Sustainability in drug discovery

• Due to the expanding and ageing world population, the importance and use of medicines is expected to increase. However, this will lead to a greater impact on the ecosystem and our health in the long term. The concept of sustainability is rather slowly gaining traction and is currently still fragmented in the pharmaceutical field. A consortium of researchers from five European universities therefore advocates a global, systematic approach and places the emphasis on sustainability already in early stages of drug development, i.e. drug discovery. According to the researchers, the competent authorities, universities, research institutions and industrial organizations all need to take sustainability more into account. They summarized the most important opportunities on the basis of ten sustainability principles.

Ämnesord

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Klinisk medicin -- Annan klinisk medicin (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Clinical Medicine -- Other Clinical Medicine (hsv//eng)

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Miljöbioteknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Environmental Biotechnology (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Sustainability

Ecological–environmental impact

Socio-economic dimension

Drug discovery

Pharmaceutical field

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