The pharmaceutical industry is expected to grow substantially in the coming years with strong demand coming from the healthcare needs of retiring baby boomers. Better drugs will be needed to treat everything from alzheimers, cancer, and arthritis to obesity. In the early stage of drug discovery, the challenges are finding and evaluating new targets, optimizing hits for potency and stability, synthesis scaleup and analytical method development. In pre-clinical the main challenges are testing in appropriate animal models to demonstrate efficacy. Before the clinical stage can begin an Investigational New Drug (IND) application must be submitted, and a delivery formulation needs to be developed. At Picotide Technologies we can help you with any of these challenges.