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From Bedside to Wall Street
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By
Tamas Bartfai, Harold L. Dorris Neurological Research Center and Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA
Graham Lees, Publishing Director, TheScientificWorld Ltd., Newbury, U.K.
Description
Everyone expects something from the drug industry. Physicians and patients, investors, regulators and administrators all have an active
interest. Everyone wants to know what makes drugs ?work? medically and economically. Why are drugs so expensive? Is it the drug companies
or investors who demand high profits? What governs the pharmacoeconomics? Why are so few diseases treatable?
This book opens the windows
and doors of the industry telling the story of drug development by using real stories from inside the process.
Audience
Academics/Scientists interested in working with biotech and pharma companies
Contents
Proposed Contents:
1. The Art of Putting a Molecule Into Man
2. Raising & Rising Expectations
3. History is good to know
4. The "Better
Betablocker Barrier"
5. Why Some Good Drugs Do Not Get a Chance & Why
6. About the Economics of Target and Clinical Candidate Selection
7. Target Based Drug Discovery: Part I
8. Changes Need to be Made
9. Target Based Drug Discovery, Part II
10. "Drugable" Targets
11.
So Many Drugs, So Few Entities
12. How to Find a Candidate
13. Practicalities: The Hoops & Hurdles of Big Pharma
14. Practical Trials
for a Balanced Portfolio
15. How to Improve the Odds of Finding a Safe Drug that Works
16. The Tribulations of Clinical Trials
17. Linking
Putative Targets to Disease States
18. More Ways to Look for Targets
19. The Business Basics
20. Adding Value in a Growth of Industry
21. What's the Most Profitable Approach?
22. Pharmacoeconomics for Biotech
23. Shrinking Value of Targets
24. Assessing Company Assets?
Look in the Library
25. To Merge or Not to Merge?
26. Working with the Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
27. Regulating Regulatory Regimens
Reliably
28. The Hypothesis Is: There is a Better Way
29. What are "We" all Working on?
30. More Tablets Taken per Day than Meals Served
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Paperback, 328 pages, publication date: DEC-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-369533-8
ISBN-10: 0-12-369533-3
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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