What Is Drug Repositioning?

Drug repositioning involves the investigation of existing drugs for new therapeutic purposes.

How does drug repositioning work?

Drug repositioning utilizes the combined efforts of activity-based or experimental and in silico-based or computational approaches to develop/identify the new uses of drug molecules on a rational basis.

Why is repositioning drugs important?

1 Introduction. Drug repositioning is a promising field in drug discovery that identifies new therapeutic opportunities for existing drugs. ... This decreases the overall cost of bringing the drug to market because the safety and pharmacokinetic profiles of the repositioned candidates are already established.