We built this for someone we love.
When someone you love gets a diagnosis nobody can really treat, you start typing weird searches into the internet at 1am. Has anyone tried X for Y? What do these papers actually say? Is there anything we're missing?
Most of those answers exist but they're scattered across databases. Open Targets, ChEMBL, ClinicalTrials.gov, PubMed: between them they hold most of what humanity has learned about drugs and diseases.
RepurposeX translates. We comb those databases for drugs that act on genes linked to a disease — drugs that might help, but that nobody has thought to try yet. We turn the matches into short, plain-English explanations and add a one-page summary you can print and bring to your doctor.
We are not a clinic. We are not your doctor. Nothing here is a recommendation for treatment. The hypotheses we surface are starting points for a conversation, not answers. The whole point of the printable summary is that you take it to a qualified clinician who can tell you whether it makes sense for your situation.
If you find a mistake, or a way to make this clearer, please tell us.
What this can do
- Surface drugs that already exist and might help with conditions they weren't designed for.
- Translate the supporting evidence into plain English (with the scientific terms one click away).
- Generate a one-page printable summary you can take to a clinician.
- Show you live data — clinical trials in progress, recent research — from the official registries.
What this can't do
- Tell you whether a drug is safe for you specifically.
- Replace a doctor, a pharmacist, or a clinical trial.
- Promise that any candidate will work.
- Catch every possible match — we're limited by what's in the public databases.