Drug Design, Development and Therapy is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal that spans the spectrum of drug design, discovery and development through to clinical applications.

The journal is characterized by the rapid reporting of high-quality original research, reviews, expert opinions, commentary and clinical studies in all therapeutic areas.

Specific topics covered by the journal include:

Drug target identification and validation

Phenotypic screening and target deconvolution

Biochemical analyses of drug targets and their pathways

New methods or relevant applications in molecular/drug design and computer-aided drug discovery*

Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of novel biologically active compounds (including diagnostics or chemical probes)

Structural or molecular biological studies elucidating molecular recognition processes

Fragment-based drug discovery

Pharmaceutical/red biotechnology

Isolation, structural characterization, (bio)synthesis, bioengineering and pharmacological evaluation of natural products**

Distribution, pharmacokinetics and metabolic transformations of drugs or biologically active compounds in drug development

Drug delivery and formulation (design and characterization of dosage forms, release mechanisms and in vivo testing)

Preclinical development studies

Translational animal models

Mechanisms of action and signalling pathways

Toxicology

Gene therapy, cell therapy and immunotherapy

Personalized medicine and pharmacogenomics

Clinical drug evaluation

Patient safety and sustained use of medicines.