About

We want to improve Life

Net4Science (N4S) is a spin-off proposed by the research group of Medicinal Chemistry of the Department of Health Sciences at Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro. From 1996 it operates in the process of development of biologically active compounds, mainly by innovative computational techniques. N4S provides services to public and private parties in the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical area at national and international level.
Our mission consists in carrying out and accelerating the activities of drug discovery in the field of poly-pharmacology and multi-targeting, training professional figures in this area and enhancing the application of typical products in a nutraceutical perspective.

Poly-pharmacology: the rise of multi-target drugs

Multi-target drugs have aroused considerable interest in the last decade, both in academia and in companies, thanks to their advantages in the treatment of complex diseases and health conditions also related to the resistance matters. The repurposing issue of compounds for the treatment of complex diseases is a further application of multi-target ligands. Net4Science is active in the poly-pharmacology and multi-target drug discovery with specific services for pharmaceutical and nutraceutical institutions working at national and international level.
To date, the one-drug-one-target concept is evolving towards the traditional view “lock and key” model to “one-drug multiple-targets”. In fact, pharmacological effects, often due to the interaction of single drugs with multiple targets, are encouraging to shift the scientific investigations toward experimental and computational multi-target approaches.