Journal of Developing Drugs
Open Access
ISSN: 2329-6631
ISSN: 2329-6631
Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Commentary
Pharmacology as the Foundation of Precision Therapeutics in Modern Healthcare
Author(s): Ethan J Carter*
Pharmacology has long served as the scientific bridge between basic biomedical research and clinical medicine. While advances in molecular biology, biotechnology and artificial intelligence have transformed healthcare, pharmacology remains the discipline that explains how therapeutic agents interact with biological systems to prevent, manage, or cure disease. Beyond the discovery of new medicines, pharmacology provides the evidence needed to determine optimal dosage, predict adverse reactions, understand drug interactions and evaluate long term therapeutic outcomes. As healthcare increasingly shifts toward individualized f identifying these sources of variability and developing individualized therapeutic strategies that maximize efficacy while minimizing toxicity. An important contributor to this personalized approach is pharmacogenomics, which examines how inherited genetic variation.. View More»