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Overview of the Drug Repurposing Hub
New drugs can take more than a decade to get to market. But what if we could take thousands of drugs already approved to safely treat disease, as well as other compounds that have been studied as potential drugs, and find new uses for these old medicines? That is the mission of the Drug Repurposing Hub, an open-access repository of more than 6,000 compounds, many of which have been FDA approved.

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