Drug Design Development And Therapy

Journal Title：Drug Design Development And Therapy

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.

Drug Design, Development and Therapy 是一本经过同行评审的国际开放获取期刊，涵盖药物设计、发现和开发直至临床应用的各个领域。

该杂志的特点是快速报道所有治疗领域的高质量原创研究、评论、专家意见、评论和临床研究。

期刊涵盖的具体主题包括：

药物靶点识别与验证

表型筛选和目标反卷积

药物靶点及其通路的生化分析

分子/药物设计和计算机辅助药物发现中的新方法或相关应用*

新型生物活性化合物（包括诊断或化学探针）的设计、合成和生物学评估

阐明分子识别过程的结构或分子生物学研究

基于片段的药物发现

制药/红色生物技术

天然产物的分离、结构表征、（生物）合成、生物工程和药理学评价**

药物或生物活性化合物在药物开发中的分布、药代动力学和代谢转化

药物输送和配方（剂型的设计和表征、释放机制和体内测试）

临床前开发研究

转化动物模型

作用机制和信号通路

毒理学

基因治疗、细胞治疗和免疫治疗

个性化医学和药物基因组学

临床药物评价

患者安全和药物的持续使用。

Drug Design Development And Therapy创刊于2007年，由DOVE MEDICAL PRESS LTD出版商出版，收稿方向涵盖CHEMISTRY, MEDICINAL - PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY全领域，此刊是中等级别的SCI期刊，所以过审相对来讲不是特别难，但是该刊专业认可度不错，仍然是一本值得选择的SCI期刊 。平均审稿速度>12周，或约稿，影响因子指数3.216，该期刊近期没有被列入国际期刊预警名单，广大学者值得一试。