druggable

English

Etymology

From drug +‎ -able.

Adjective

druggable (comparative more druggable, superlative most druggable)

1. (genetics, medicine) Describing the ability of a biological molecule (for example, a protein) to be targeted by drugs, especially by small molecule drugs.

   Antonyms: undruggable, non-druggable

   • 2007 March, Joanna Owens, “Determining druggability”, in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery‎^[1], volume 6, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 187–187:

     With only 10% of the human genome representing druggable targets, and only half of those being relevant to disease, it is important to be able to predict how druggable a novel target is in early drug discovery.

Related terms

• druggability