# Drug Discovery

> Drug discovery is the process of identifying and developing new therapeutic agents. Modern approaches combine computational chemistry, structural biology, and machine learning to accelerate the pipeline from target identification through clinical trials.

*Source: [https://selltoscientists.com/fields/drug-discovery/](https://selltoscientists.com/fields/drug-discovery/)*

**Researcher count:** 74,000
**Average funding:** $580K

## Subfields

- Medicinal Chemistry
- Pharmacology
- High-Throughput Screening
- Structure-Based Drug Design
- ADMET

## Key technologies

- AI-Driven Molecular Design
- Cryo-EM
- Fragment-Based Screening
- Organ-on-a-Chip
- DNA-Encoded Libraries

## Top institutions

- Oxford
- Harvard
- Johns Hopkins
- Karolinska Institute
- UC San Francisco

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