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WWAD

General information

URL: https://www.way2drug.com/wwad/index.php
Full name: World Wide Approved Drugs
Description: World Wide Approved Drugs (WWAD) catalogs more than 4,400 unique low-molecular-weight active pharmaceutical substances approved worldwide. For each compound, WWAD provides the chemical structure, pharmacotherapeutic application, molecular targets, therapeutic indications, and documented biological activities, with links to the underlying data sources. All pharmacotherapeutic information is manually curated from over 88 national medicines registers and their official documents (e.g., Summaries of Product Characteristics, FDA Drug Labels, Drug Monographs, Instructions for Use, European Public Assessment Reports, and PMDA Review Reports)
Year founded: 2024
Last update: 2025-04
Version:
Accessibility:
Accessible
Country/Region: Russian Federation

Contact information

University/Institution: Institute of Biomedical Chemistry
Address:
City: Moscow
Province/State:
Country/Region: Russian Federation
Contact name (PI/Team): Way2Drug team
Contact email (PI/Helpdesk): pass@ibmc.msk.ru

Publications

39359251
WWAD: the most comprehensive small molecule World Wide Approved Drug database of therapeutics. [PMID: 39359251]
Savosina P, Druzhilovskiy D, Filimonov D, Poroikov V.
Front Pharmacol. 2024:15() | 2 Citations (from Europe PMC, 2025-12-13)

Ranking

All databases:
4199/6895 (39.115%)
Health and medicine:
1070/1738 (38.493%)
4199
Total Rank
2
Citations
2
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Created on: 2025-09-08
Curated by:
Polina Savosina [2025-11-10]
shaosen zhang [2025-09-09]
Polina Savosina [2025-09-09]
Polina Savosina [2025-09-08]