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ReviewDrug discovery today2024

New approaches for challenging therapeutic targets.

Karlie R Sharma, Abir Malik, Rebecca A Roof, Jim P Boyce, Sharad K Verma

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Review in Drug discovery today, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
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  3. [Targeting chimera technology: A new tool for undruggable in breast cancer].Zhong nan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Central South University. Medical sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Karlie R SharmaNational Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 6701 Democracy Blvd, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. Electronic address: Karlie.sharma@nih.gov.
Abir MalikNational Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, 6701 Democracy Blvd, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Rebecca A RoofNational Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Jim P BoyceNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Sharad K VermaNational Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.

Funding

Intramural NIH HHS Z99 TR999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite successes with new drug approvals over the past two decades through conventional drug development approaches, many human diseases remain intractable to current therapeutic interventions. Possible barriers may be that the complexity of the target, and disease biology, are impervious to such conventional drug development approaches. The US National Institutes of Health hosted a workshop with the goal of identifying challenges and opportunities with alternative modalities for developing treatments across diseases associated with historically undruggable targets. This report highlights key issues discussed during the workshop that, if addressed, could expand the pool of therapeutic approaches for treating various diseases.

Indexed as

Drug DevelopmentEducationNational Institutes of Health (U.S.)United Statesalternative modalitiesintractable diseaseundruggable targets

Identifiers

PMID38447929
PMCPMC10997441

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