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Editorial
. 2025 Oct 8:16:1709217.
doi: 10.3389/fphar.2025.1709217. eCollection 2025.

Editorial: Opportunities and challenges in drug repurposing

Ihosvany Camps  1 , Stephan R Künzel  2   3 , Mario Schubert  4 , Ramendra K Singh  5
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Editorial

Editorial: Opportunities and challenges in drug repurposing

Ihosvany Camps et al. Front Pharmacol. .

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Keywords: artificial intelligence; bioinformatics; challenges; drug repositioning; drug repurposing; opportunities.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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