About Your Medicines
The advances in drug development and delivery described in this booklet reflect scientists' growing knowledge about human biology. This knowledge has allowed them to develop medicines targeted to specific molecules or cells. In the future, doctors may be able to treat or prevent diseases with drugs that actually repair cells or protect them from attack. No one knows which of the techniques now being developed will yield valuable future medicines, but it is clear that thanks to pharmacology research, tomorrow's doctors will have an unprecedented array of weapons to fight disease.
ABCs of Pharmacology
Track a medicine's journey through the body and explore different avenues of pharmacology research today.
Drugs From Nature, Then and Now
Discover how scientists are looking to nature for information and resources to manufacture new drugs.
Molecules to Medicines
Cutting-edge research in drug delivery is helping get drugs to disease sites and away from healthy cells.
Body, Heal Thyself
Learn how new knowledge about the body's molecular machinery is pointing to new drugs.
