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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Microbiol. 2017 Feb 27;15(4):217–231. doi: 10.1038/nrmicro.2016.193

Figure 1. The drug discovery process.

Figure 1

Drug discovery progresses through several stages and each stage involves specific steps and regulations. The failure rate at each stage is high, which underscores the need for an active pipeline of drug discovery projects.