The aim of this short presentation is to give the reader a basic understanding of drug design, the old fashioned way, and modern drug design.

1. This short presentation is an
advertizement for this drug design
forum
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2. Drug design old fashioned.
• Wow damn this root makes me high, lets see if
we can extract the active ingridient.
• Or it was based on sheer luck as with the
benzodiazepine, the tricyclic drugs and other
types of small molecule drugs.

3. The modern way

4. And that means…
• That this arrow represents the active site.
• And this arrow represents a possible allosteric
site.
• In short it’s all about knowing the biological
target.