A medicine takes almost as long as a human to mature. On average, it takes an active ingredient 13 years before it is granted regulatory approval, and a few more years before the medicine is established in day-to-day medical practice. Along the way, it may encounter blind alleys and find itself on the wrong track. But this is where the comparison with human development ends. A medicine is an industrial high-tech product whose development involves the participation of biologists, chemists, physicians, pharmaceutical experts and other specialists. Basic research and translational (applied) research prepare the ground for the development of medically useful substances, which have to be extensively tested in both the preclinical and the clinical phase, so that patients can benefit from new and more effective therapies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1. Medicine as high-tech product A medicine takes almost as long as a human to mature. On average, it takes an active ingredient 13 years before it is granted regulatory approval, and a few more years before the medicine is established in day-to-day medical practice. Along the way, it may encounter blind alleys and find […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":866,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/unterthema.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-860","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n