A scientist throughly reviewing her work

Path to new medicines

The discovery, development and commercialisation of a medicine is a complex process.

This is a high level overview of the process for a new small molecule medicine. It is illustrative only. It is not intended to (and nor does it) represent the life-cycle of any particular medicine or of every medicine discovered and/or developed by AstraZeneca.

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This is a high level overview of the process for a new small molecule medicine. It is illustrative only. It is not intended to (and nor does it) represent the life-cycle of any particular medicine or of every medicine discovered and/or developed by AstraZeneca.