WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Avila Therapeutics™, Inc., a biotechnology company developing novel targeted covalent drugs, today announced the publication of a scientific review article in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery titled “The Resurgence of Covalent Drugs” (www.nature.com/reviews/drugdisc, Vol. 10, April 2011, Singh, J.). This article discusses the broad opportunities for covalent drugs and how structural bioinformatics coupled with structure-based drug design can enable the design of highly selective covalent drugs with unique therapeutic properties for treating diseases.
