Toward identifying principles in drug repositioning: analyses of poly-indication drugs

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24700300
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Bioinformatics/Life informatics
• Research Institution: Okayama University (2015); The University of Tokyo (2012-2014)
• Principal Investigator: MORITA Mizuki 岡山大学, 医歯(薬)学総合研究科, 准教授 (00519316)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 治療薬 / 適応拡大

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Aiming at identifying principles and rules allowing drug repositioning, characterizations of all drugs currently prescribed in hospitals in Japan were performed. The following major points were explored in this study: the distribution of diseases that the same drug can be applied to, the distribution of drugs that can be used in the same disease, the characterization of disease combinations that the same drugs can be applied to, and the characterization of drugs that can be applied to many diseases.

Free Research Field

医療情報学