Drug Discovery

From DrugPedia: A Wikipedia for Drug discovery

Drug Discovery is a process of identifying the new chemical compound that behaves as a drug like molecule.But this is a very slow process and may take around 7-8 years and large amount of money.

Steps in Drug Discovery 
1.Identification of Target molecule
2.Target validation
3.Assay Development
4.Screening 
5.Lead optimization
6.Development
7.Clinical Trials