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Designer pharmaceuticals

Dr Phil Hasnip explains how computer modelling of materials is vital to the pharmaceutical industry.
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We finish this section on designer materials by looking at one final application of computer modelling materials: pharmaceuticals.

You might imagine that developing new medications would be best done by a biologist, a doctor, or maybe a chemist. However, in this video, Dr Phil Hasnip explains how advanced computer software using the principles of quantum mechanics is now at the forefront of pharmaceutical research.

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