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This book provides an up-to-date monograph on the drug discovery and regulatory elements of therapuetics used to treat rare or "orphan" diseases.

An exciting volume that provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review on the potential of peptides and proteins from animal venoms as human therapeutics.

This exemplary new book reviews some of the most outstanding examples of new drugs currently in pharmaceutical development or new targets under the validation process to try to reach the Parkinsons drug market in the next few years as potential disease modifying drugs.

This book presents a contemporary review of the field of Pain Therapeutics, including the historical medicines which still dominate standard of care treatments, as well as new mechanisms and combinations/reformulations that have dominated the regulatory approvals over the last decade.

This book will provide an overview of the chemistry of nanocarrier design and the considerations that need to be made when developing a nanomedicine.

This book will provide an invaluable guide to epigenetics, one of the fastest moving fields in drug discovery, for medicinal chemists working in academia and in the pharmaceutical industry.

This book comprehensively reviews current knowledge and techniques in the transporter sciences and their relations to drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics.

This book addresses the various classes of privileged scaffolds and covers the history of their discovery and use.

This book covers new insights in the field of schizophrenia with an aim to advance the understanding of scientists and clinicians in this area and to fuel drug discovery.

Anti-Inflammatory Drug Discovery provides a comprehensive review of recent medicinal chemistry approaches to a variety of important therapeutic targets

This book covers proteomics biomarker discovery and validation procedures from the clinical perspective.

This is the first book to pull together studies and reviews from cutting edge authors who work in the emerging and exciting field of multi-targeted drug discovery.

The focus of this new book is for medicinal chemists on the chemical agents that have been used, or might be required in the future, and the methods of synthesis for inserting the reporter groups. A key reference for academics, postgraduates, researchers, industrialists and professionals working in or joining this field.

This book will act as a primer for graduates and postgraduates interested in a career in drug discovery. It covers both synthetic technologies currently impacting medicinal chemistry and emerging areas.

An invaluable guide to successful practice in neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and highlights best practice to guide the ongoing drug discovery effort.

This is the first comprehensive description of the discovery and therapeutic potential of polyamine drugs.

A rapidly growing field, this book covers the recent advances in screening technology, ion channel structure and modelling, with up-to-date case histories.

This book considers the relationship between structure and function in G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and the implications for drug design.

This is the first book to examine the future opportunities and challenges in the development of drugs which target kinases

This book, aimed at academics, industrialists and post-graduates, documents the latest research into computer aided drug design.

Shows how different parts of the drug discovery process have developed, with particular emphasis on quantitative aspects and possible future progress.

This unique book focuses on the currently 'hot topic' of Pharmaceutical Salts and Co-crystals. Combining both reports of the latest academic research and comprehensive overviews of basic principles, with more applied contributions from selected experts in industry.

This book is aimed at both graduates and postgraduates interested in a career in the pharmaceutical industry by informing them about the breadth of the work carried out in chemical research and development departments. It is also of great value to academics wishing to advise students on the merits of careers in chemical development over discovery.

This thorough and up-to-date insight into predictive technologies considers what is on the horizon for safety prediction in human health.

This exemplary book gives an up-to-date perspective on the role of metal ions in neurodegeneration.

Describes proteolytic enzymes and their biological function to aid drug discovery by detailing methods of production and assay of the enzymes.

This is a wide scope and in-depth coverage of the state of the art and future directions in drug discovery for major psychiatric disorders.

An integrated review of the most recent trends in natural products drug discovery and key lead candidates that are outstanding for their chemistry and biology in novel drug development.

A volume that will provide a mechanism-based approach to understanding Chinese medicine for both Western and Eastern scientists.

This book will review macrocycles in drug discovery and will be of interest to biochemists, pharmaceutical scientists and medicinal chemists working in industry or academia.