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 drugs. Their success is highly dependent on insights and advances from the combined use of particularly chemical and biological research, and it is clearly important to have the worlds of chemistry and biology to work in a concerted effort. Similarly, research at academic institutions is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary, which is driven by the increasing complexity that modern research is facing. Multi-or interdisciplinary 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 encompass research from physics, chemistry, biology, and computer sciences.
