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Tue Feb 26

I build mathematical programs that could discover the drugs of the future

Written by Guowei Wei, Professor of Mathematics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University

How will each drug interact with the proteins in your body?Evlakhov Valeriy/shutterstock.com

Discovering and designing a new drug is one of the most challenging tasks in the biological sciences. It takes over 10 years and about US$2.6 billion to bring an average drug to market.

The essential idea behind making a new drug is to create a molecule that...

I build mathematical programs that could discover the drugs of the future

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