A medical scientist, Ciechanover while delivering a lecture on 'the revolution of personalised medicines' at BITS in Pilani said that understanding of the mechanism, unlike the previous age, will drive the development of new drugs in the new era.
He said that this era will be characterised initially by the development of technology where sequencing and data processing of individual genomes will be fast and cheap by identification and characterisation of new disease-specific molecular makers and drug target.
Speaking about the evolution of drugs, Ciechanover said that many important drugs were discovered by serendipity - some by curious researchers who accidentally noted a 'strange' phenomenon and some by isolation of active ingredients from plants known to have a specific therapeutic effect, according to a release here.
Ciechanover, who won the Nobel Prize which was shared with Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation, laid emphasis on a change in approach to scientific research and development.
The Vice Chancellor of BITS, B N Jain, over 1,500 faculty members and students attended the lecture at the institute in Jhunjhunu district.
