Drug Discovery and Development: Technology In Transition - Softcover

Rang MB BS MA DPhil Hon FBPharmacolS FMedSci FRS, Humphrey P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0443064202 ISBN 13: 9780443064203

Publisher: Churchill Livingstone, 2006

Synopsis

This title is directed primarily toward health care professionals outside the United States. An ideal introduction to the pharmaceutical industry, this book describes the process of bringing a new drug to the marketplace. It explains why, although thousands of compounds show initial promise, only a small handful will be developed for human clinical trials and perhaps only one will become an approved drug. Describing the huge complexities involved, it shows how new molecular understanding and techniques can make the process more targeted and successful.

• Includes the new molecular techniques of drug design and development.
• Discusses current therapeutic needs.
• Covers pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacoeconomics.
• Edited by Humphrey Rang, who is also known throughout the world as a co-author of the enormously successful and authoritative textbook, Pharmacology, now in its fifth edition.
• Foreword by Daniel Vasella, CEO, Novartis International.
• Includes contributors from both the pharmaceutical industry and universities.

About this title

About the Author:

Humphrey P. Rang, MB, BS, MA, DPhil, FMedSci, FRS, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology, University College, London, UK, formerly Director, Novartis Institute for Medical Science, London, UK

About this edition

• Publisher: Churchill Livingstone
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0443064202
• ISBN 13: 9780443064203
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360