Comprehensive Medicinal Chemistry II

This volume provides an educative and authoritative discussion on the drug discovery and development process. It is divided into the sections of the discovery process. To illustrate the end of the drug discovery process. Subsequent chapters explain the impact of genomic technologies. The next section reviews the companies, venture capitalists and academic-industrial relations in the drug discovery process. Social and ethical issues are developing smaller natural diseases (orphan drugs). Two chapters then review the bioethical and ethical issues facing the pharmaceutical industry. The volume of rights and patents are protected. With a volume of drugs in the pharmaceutical industry.

* valuable content available from May 2009 as an individual volume
* provides a global overview of the drug discovery process

Volume 1 Global Perspective
Historical Perspective and Outlook
The Impact of New Genomic Technologies
Sources of New Drugs
Animal Experimentation
The Role of Industry
Drug Discovery: Revolution, Decline?
Healthcare in the Social Context
Ethical Issues
Intellectual Property