[Developmental trends in drug research].

A survey is given on the actual state of drug research and its developmental tendencies. Issuing from an estimation of the present and prospective health-political and economic importance of the drugs the following main subjects of drug research are represented:--Influence on drug research by progressing of knowledge from biosciences,--traditional cooperation between synthesis, chemistry and biological test,--problems in the judgment of activity and security in the application of drugs (indirect side-effects of drugs),--problems in clinical testing of new drugs,--drug monitoring,--biopharmaceutical and galenic research conceptions. As to the fields mentioned the developmental tendencies are described as well as possible effects on the medicamentous therapy in practice are treated.