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When Potency Is Not Enough: Aligning Modality, Exposure, and Biology

  • ACS Med Chem Lett. 2026 Feb 23;17(3):625-627. doi: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.6c00080.
Anna C Renner 1 Robert B Kargbo 2
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  • 1 North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58108-6050, United States.
  • 2 Independent Research Consultant, Middleton, Wisconsin 53562, United States.
Abstract

Recent patent disclosures illustrate how modern medicinal chemistry advances by aligning biological insight with chemical modality, formulation rigor, and molecular measurement. Targeted protein degradation to overcome resistance, solid-state engineering to ensure sustained pathway suppression, and single-cell genomic profiling to resolve metastatic biology together demonstrate how therapeutic impact emerges when perturbation, delivery, and biological observability are coherently integrated.

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