Company Overview
DrugBank is on a mission to empower scientists to bring better medicines to market, faster. Headquartered in Edmonton, DrugBank has evolved from a world-class open-access database into a global intelligence platform trusted by scientists, analysts, and innovators across pharma, biotech, and academia.
By combining richly structured biomedical data with advanced software and AI tools, DrugBank helps users navigate complex biological and clinical information—accelerating everything from target identification and trial landscaping to pharmacovigilance and market analysis.
Today, DrugBank powers research and commercial workflows around the world, with over 50,000 citations in academic literature and more than 21 million annual users.
Major Developments & Initiatives
DrugBank’s product strategy is focused on transforming its trusted dataset into a full-spectrum intelligence platform—one that allows scientists and analysts to ask complex strategic questions and receive instant, evidence-backed answers.
The platform blends DrugBank’s curated knowledge base with AI-assisted research tools and an intuitive interface to support a broad range of roles across discovery, translational science, and strategic decision-making.
Recent Successes & Impact
- Surpassed 21 million users and 50,000 citations, with adoption across top pharmaceutical companies, hundreds of biotech startups, and nearly every academic institution in North America.
- Launched the first version of the new DrugBank platform, empowering scientists and analysts to explore strategic development questions through the connected lenses of drugs, targets, diseases, and trials.
What’s Next
In the year ahead, DrugBank is focused on expanding traction with users in competitive intelligence and portfolio strategy roles. Key upcoming releases include:
- An AI Copilot that helps users ask and answer complex strategic questions in minutes
- Monitoring capabilities that surface critical changes across the scientific and clinical landscape in real time
Challenges & Strategic Direction
As pharma R&D becomes increasingly data-driven and interconnected, the challenge is no longer just data access, but navigating fragmented knowledge. Scientists are inundated with disconnected papers, siloed systems, and evolving datasets.
DrugBank is uniquely positioned to address this challenge through its unified data model, machine-readable relationships, and a flexible experience layer built to meet scientists where they are.
By serving as both a system of record and a system of intelligence, DrugBank is building more than just a database, it’s becoming the intelligence backbone of modern drug discovery.
Learn More
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