The stories behind drug discovery are fascinating, full of human and scientific interest. This is a book on the history of drug discovery that highlights the intellectual splendor of discoverers as well as the human frailty associated with them. History is replete with examples of breakthrough medic[...]

Blockbuster drugs-each of which generates more than a billion dollars a year in revenue-have revolutionized the industry since the early 1980s, when sales of Tagamet alone transformed a minor Philadelphia-based firm into the world's ninth-largest pharmaceutical company. In Blockbuster Drugs, Jie Jac[...]

Edited by two distinguished chemists from academia and industry, this book presents an up-to-date overview of major aspects of drug discovery. It covers all ends of the discovery process from target selection to major therapeutic areas.[...]

Providing a handy reference to synthetic methods and practical techniques, Heterocyclic Chemistry in Drug Discovery fuses heterocyclic chemistry and drug discovery, two areas that have gone hand-in-hand in the practice of medicinal chemistry, but have not yet come together for training novice medi[...]