Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics: New Insights and Implication in Drug Development
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Characterizing the relationship between the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics is an important tool in the discovery and development of new drugs in the pharmaceutical industry. The drug discovery and development enterprise, traditionally an industrial juggernaut, has spanned into the academic arena that is partially motivated by the National Institutes of Health Roadmap highlighting translational science and medicine. Since drug discovery and development represents a pipeline of basic to clinical investigations it meshes well with the prime “bench to the bedside” directive of translational medicine. The renewed interest in drug discovery and develpoment in academia provides an opportunity to rethink the hiearchary of studies with the hope to improve the staid approaches that have been critizied for lacking innovation. This review focuses on three important elements of successful PK/PD studies, namely partnership among key scientists involved in the study execution; parameters that influence study designs; and data analysis and interpretation. Specific examples and case studies are highlighted to help demonstrate key points for consideration. The intent is to provide a broad PK/PD foundation for colleagues in the pharmaceutical industry and serve as a tool to promote appropriate discussions on early research project teams with key scientists involved in PK/PD studies.
Authors: Rakesh Kumar Sahu, Khushi Kumari, Kushagra Kumar, Manoranjan Kumar, Md Imran Ansari, Seraj Ahmad
Language: English
Subfield: Statistics and Probability
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6949512798
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