African Progress in Drug Development Chemistry; a 100 Years Update

Abstract

Africa is currently very active in the search for drugs particularly with focus on the preclinical phases of drug discovery. This work aimed at determining the extent to which Africa has gone with research and studies in advanced stages of drug discovery in the past 100 years which is the development stage. Drug development in this context refers to the identification and optimization of proven bioactive molecules beyond the pre-clinical trial phases approved or with potential to be approved as a drug against biological targets