Assoc. Prof. Yordan Yordanov was the guest of Episode 63 of the Bulgarian science podcast “Ти и науката” (“You and Science”), dedicated to a fundamental question in pharmacology and toxicology: How safe are the medicines we take?
The discussion explores why therapeutic activity and toxicity are not completely separate properties of a drug, how dose and exposure influence the balance between benefit and risk, and how scientists evaluate potential adverse effects before a new medicine reaches clinical trials.
The episode also introduces the public to the role of preclinical pharmacology and toxicology in drug development, including contemporary experimental approaches used to evaluate new active substances and drug-delivery systems.
Science communication is an important part of our work: complex biomedical research has the greatest societal value when its relevance, possibilities and limitations can also be explained beyond the laboratory.
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