By
Robert Rydzewski, Newark, CA, USA
Description
Drug discovery increasingly requires a common understanding by researchers of the many and diverse factors that go into the making of
new medicines. The scientist entering the field will immediately face important issues for which his education may not have prepared
him: project teams, patent law, consultants, target product profiles, industry trends, Gantt charts, target validation, pharmacokinetics,
proteomics, phenotype assays, biomarkers, and many other unfamiliar topics for which a basic understanding must somehow be obtained.
Even the more experienced scientist can find it frustratingly difficult to get an overview of the many factors involved in modern drug
discovery and often only after years of exploring does a whole and integrated picture emerge in the mind of the researcher.
Real
World Drug Discovery: A Chemist’s Guide to Biotech and Pharmaceutical Research presents this kind of map of the landscape of drug
discovery. In a single, readable volume it outlines processes and explains essential concepts and terms for the recent science graduate
wondering what to expect in pharma or biotech, the medicinal chemist seeking a broader and more timely understanding of the industry,
or the contractor or collaborator whose understanding of the commercial drug discovery process could increase the value of his contribution
to it.
Audience:
Graduate students and others moving into medicinal chemistry/pharma research, current drug discovery researchers, academic collaborators, and contract researchers.
