Industrialization of Drug Discovery: From Target Selection Through Lead Optimization [Hardcover]

Drug Discovery in the Modern Age: How We Got Here and Where Do We Go?. The Regulatory Age. Industrialization Not Automation. Compound Management. High Throughput Screening. Parallel Lead Optimization. Knowledge Management. ROI  How to Measure It? How to Get It?. Collaboration in a Virtual and Global Environment. From Genome to Drug: Ethical Issues.The pharmaceutical industry suffers from an innovation deficit, with clinical attrition and safety-related market-withdrawal rates at the same level as twenty years ago. This book scrutinizes this problem in detail, contrasting the promise of technology and industrialization with the apparent inability of industry to fully realize the tools that are available. The text begins by introducing the evolution of modern drug discovery, tracing it from basic concepts to current approaches. The editor devotes the remainder of the discussion to the regulatory environment, industrialization, compound and knowledge management functions, the drug screening process, collaboration, and finally, ethical issues.The drug discovery and development process is getting longer, more expensive, and no better. The industry suffers from the same clinical attrition and safety-related market withdrawal rates today as it did 20 years ago. Industrialization of Drug Discovery: From Target Selection Through Lead Optimization scrutinizes these problems in detail, contrasting the promise of technology and industrialization with the challenges of using the tools available to their best advantage. The book explores early successes, examines the current state of the art, and provides a strategic analysis of the issues currently facing drug discovery.

Introducing the historical background and current status of the industry, the book delineates the basic tenets underlying modern drug discovery, how they have evolved, and their use in various approaches and strategies. It examines, in detail, the regulations, requirements, guidelinel“›