Treatment

This branch covers the scientific background of therapeutic interventions, divided by the aspect of treatment: pharmacology, medicine development, biotechnology platforms, lifestyle medicine and anaesthesia. Disease-specific treatments, detailed clinical trial design and the regulatory documents supporting authorisation belong to neighbouring branches.

• How medicines act — pharmacological profiles, metabolism, liver injury, use in children and older people, cannabis and psychedelics
• Developing a medicine — development stages, preclinical models, nonclinical safety studies, biomarkers and pipeline economics
• Biotechnology and advanced therapies — the field of biotechnology, gene therapy and editing, stem cells, regenerative medicine and nanomedicine
• Lifestyle medicine — definitions, its relationship with conventional care, plant-based eating, prevention and treatment findings, education and policy
• Anaesthesia and perioperative care — the specialty’s scope, perioperative care, anaesthetic techniques, monitoring, safety, development and subspecialties