Drug Discovery and Development. Technology in Transition

Section 1 Introduction and Background

• 1. Development of the pharmaceutical industry
• 2. Nature of disease and purpose of therapy
• 3. Therapeutic modalities

Section 2 Drug Discovery

• 4. Drug target identification
• 5. Selecting the modality and planning the project
• 6. High throughput screening
• 7. Medicinal Chemistry
• 8. Biopharmaceuticals and related molecules
• 9. Emerging modalities: nucleotide based therapy, cell based therapy, gene therapy / Novel and Advanced Process
• 10. Metabolism and Pharmacokinetical strategies.
• 11. Role of pharmacology to include pharmacology of newer modalities
• 12. In vitro in vivo translation
• 13. Vaccines

Section 3 Drug Development

• 14. Drug development introduction
• 15. Drug safety
• 16. Pharmaceutical development
• 17. Clinical development
• 18. Clinical imaging
• 19. Intellectual property
• 20. Regulatory affairs
• 21. Marketing and Patient access to medicines

Section 4 Facts and Figures

• 22. Facts and Figures; and the Future

Author Information
Edited by Raymond G Hill, President, British Pharmacological Society, London, UK and Duncan Richards