This article provides an interpretation of a review published in the 2021 issue of "Nature Reviews Drug Discovery", which analyzes the history and trends of peptide drug development over the past 100 years.

Upadacitinib acts as an ATP-competitive JAK inhibitor; it competes with ATP and blocks nucleotide binding to inhibit kinase activity and the phosphorylation of downstream effectors.

Cannabinoids can be categorized into three types based on their origin: endocannabinoids, phytocannabinoids, and synthetic cannabinoids.

Apart from the approved ADCs, there are hundreds of ADCs under clinical investigation, covering a increasingly diverse range of targets.

Last year belonged to the realm of Pfizer's COVID-19 small molecule treatments, while this year is dominated by GLP-1 injectable and oral therapies.

In late October, Hengrui and Merck agreed on a €1.4 billion transaction, with a first payment of €160 million. The deal mainly involves Hengrui's self-developed PARP1 inhibitor HRS-1167 and Claudin-18.2 ADC SHR-A1904.

Merck Company published an article in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry (JMC) on the 20th of this month, reporting on the discovery process of LRRK2 inhibitor MK1468.

this approach brings new hope that we can finally address the growing concern of obesity worldwide.

For most patients with severe depression, monoamine-targeted first or second-line treatments often cannot achieve sufficient therapeutic effects.