Reposicionamiento de fármacos: beneficios e inconvenientes

Autores/as

  • Juan Manuel Germán Acacio UNAM
  • José Carlos Páez Franco UNAM
  • Irvin Jesús Moctezuma García UNAM
  • Víctor Manuel Martínez Cisneros UNAM
  • Guadalupe Coyote Dotor UNAM
  • Gloria Catalina Bernal Carrillo UNAM
  • Guillermo Roura Pérez UNAM
  • Jesús Ricardo Parra Unda UAS

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29105/qh13.04-454

Palabras clave:

Reposicionamiento de fármacos, Patentes, Industria Farmacéutica, Producto Biológico, Investigación Clínica

Resumen

La industria farmacéutica está tomando el reposicionamiento de fármacos como una aproximación novedosa para sacar al mercado medicamentos. En términos simples este proceso está basado en el reperfilamiento de fármacos que por alguna razón fueron abandonados o archivados, ya que durante su descubrimiento y desarrollo presentaron algún inconveniente para que fueran lanzados al público. Sin embargo, estas moléculas son retomadas posteriormente ya que se les ha encontrado una nueva aplicación clínica. Es decir, el reposicionamiento es una estrategia en la que medicamentos que ya están aprobados o, en proceso de investigación clínica y encuentran una nueva aplicación terapéutica diferente a la propuesta originalmente. En esta revisión se hace un recuento de los beneficios y desventajas que se observan a lo largo de un proceso de reposicionamiento. Se describe todos los posibles aspectos que deben abordarse durante el reposicionamiento de un fármaco; desde el punto de vista legal (principalmente patentes), asimismo desde el punto de vista técnico y clínico.

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2025-06-24

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Germán Acacio, J. M., Páez Franco, J. C., Moctezuma García, I. J., Martínez Cisneros, V. M., Coyote Dotor, G., Bernal Carrillo, G. C., … Parra Unda, J. R. (2025). Reposicionamiento de fármacos: beneficios e inconvenientes . Quimica Hoy, 13(04), 3–15. https://doi.org/10.29105/qh13.04-454