When Potency Is Not Enough: Aligning Modality, Exposure, and Biology
Recent patent disclosures illustrate how modern medicinal chemistry advances by aligning biological insight with chemical modality, formulation rigor, and molecular measurement. Targeted protein degradation to overcome resistance, solid-state engineering to ensure sustained pathway suppression, and single-cell genomic profiling to resolve metastatic biology together demonstrate how therapeutic impact emerges when perturbation, delivery, and biological observability are coherently integrated.
Authors
- Anna C. Renner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4971-9609)
- Robert B. Kargbo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5539-6343)
Institutions
- Dakota State University (US)
- North Dakota State University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters
- Published
- 2026-02-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.6c00080
- Primary Topic
- Protein Degradation and Inhibitors
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00