WHITE PAPER What Materials Scientists Can Learn from Medicinal Chemists Introduction At first glance, it would seem that the work that goes on at R&D labs in applied materials companies has little commonality with the processes used in the pharmaceutical industry to discover new therapeutic drugs. On closer examination, the principles are very similar, so some of the approaches, algorithms, and advanced tools developed by medicinal chemists can be leveraged in the broader context of materials research. It is easy to get lost in the complexities of drug discovery, which involve the identification and verification of detailed interactions between the targeted proteins or genes and newly synthesized or extracted chemical and biological compounds. The biological assay of such drug ca

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