Experimental Therapeutics (Postgraduate Medical Sciences Series)

As a general rule, for every 10,000 molecules screened in a given program in the laboratory, only one will survive to launch. To minimize costs, companies need to catch potential failures, due either to lack of clinical effect or toxicity, in the early discovery phase, long before they reach patients. Experimental Therapeutics introduces the dynamic and competitive discipline of experimental medicine.

Informative, concise, and easy-to-read, the book emphasizes what scientists involved in drug discovery need to know about the rapid advances made in molecular biology, genetics, and technology. Each chapter starts with a summary box, has several high yield boxes, tables, and figures and ends with a reference section that has key URLs and carefully selected references to scientific papers. The book is a useful primer for anyone working to advance the pharmacological management of disease.