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Advancements in hit identification for membrane protein drug discovery

Drug Target Review

This receptor is also expressed in the brain, where it helps to regulate dopamine release, making it a therapeutic target for the treatment of insomnia, pain, depression and Parkinson’s disease. This crucial role in regulating vital bodily processes makes it a highly important drug target within GPCR research.

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Target-directed cancer: protein-ligand interactions  

Drug Target Review

The mission of the CCDD is to discover novel small-molecule therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and progress them to hypothesis testing phase 1 clinical trials. I work in the Centre for Cancer Drug Discovery (CCDD) at The Institute of Cancer Research in London, which is an academic drug discovery centre.