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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...

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