ABSTRACT
Modern drug design and discovery is an increasingly complex process, where a wide range of actors with many different backgrounds work together toward the unifying goal of developing novel drugs. Their success is highly dependent on insights and advances from the combined use of particularly chemical and biological research, and hence it is pivotal to have researchers from chemistry and biology to work in a concerted effort, in order to succeed. Similarly, research at academic institutions is becoming more and more interdisciplinary which is driven by the increasing complexity that modern research is facing. Multi-or inter-disciplinary research disciplines are having a growing impact and boundaries between traditional natural sciences are vanishing. Chemical biology is just one example of such a cross-disciplinary science; others include nanosciences and systems biology which comprises research from physics, chemistry, biology, and computer sciences.
