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Visionary: Sights on drug design

Visionary using structure-based design to discover small molecules

May 14, 2012 7:00 AM UTC

Visionary Pharmaceuticals Inc. believes a large library and computational technology that accounts for conformational changes will allow it to design small molecules that have more drug-like properties than those discovered by conventional high throughput screening.

The company initially is focused on RAR-related orphan receptor C (RORC; RORgamma) and selectins. Both targets are related to T helper type 17 (Th17) cells, a class of lymphocytes implicated in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases...