Drug discovery : from bedside to Wall Street /: from bedside to Wall Street. (©2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Legal drugs
• Further Information: Note: By Tamas Bartfai & Graham V. Lees.
• Other Names: Bartfai, Tamas; Lees, Graham V
• Contents: The art of putting a molecule into man -- Raising and rising expectations -- History is good to know -- The better beta-blocker barrier -- Why some good drugs do not get a chance and why others fail -- About the economics of target and clinical candidate selection -- Target-based drug discovery : part 1 -- Changes need to be made -- Target-based drug discovery : part 2 -- "Drugable" targets -- So many drugs, so few entities -- How to find a candidate drug -- Practicalities, the hoops and hurdles of big pharma -- Practical trials for a balanced portfolio -- How to improve the odds of finding a safe drug that works -- The tribulations of clinical trials -- Linking putative targets to disease states -- More ways to look for targets -- The business basics (general) -- Adding value in a growth industry -- What's the most profitable approach? -- Pharmacoeconomics for biotech -- Shrinking value of targets -- Assessing company assets? : look in the library -- To merge or not to merge? -- Working with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) -- Regulating regulatory regimens reliably -- The hypothesis is : there is a better way -- What are "we" all working on? -- More tablets taken per day than meals served : changing the industrial and legislative status quo -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Amsterdam Boston : Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Copyright Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxv, 301 pages), illustrations, portrait
• Subjects: 615.19; Drugs -- Design; Drug development; Pharmaceutical industry; Drug Industry; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Drugs; Medicine; Pharmacy; Médicaments -- Conception; Médicaments -- Développement; Industrie pharmaceutique; Drug development; Drugs -- Design; Pharmaceutical industry; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780080919232; 0080919235
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.