Medicinal chemistry: the modern drug discovery process

Erland Stevens
New Jersey, US: Pearson
2013 | 432pp | £60.99
ISBN 9780321892706

Medicinal chemistry: the modern drug discovery process is an introduction to the development of new drugs and as such is well suited to undergraduates studying medicinal chemistry and the pharmaceutical sciences, particularly those at the beginning of their studies. The text does not seek to be comprehensive, instead it focuses on the underlying principles in the field of drug discovery. As such, the coverage of drug classes is constrained to reference material relating to the top selling oral drug classes. Perhaps the strongest aspect of this book is the numerous and varied case studies it uses to enliven the key principles, particularly the topical and modern examples drawn from the literature.

Mike Edwards considers how this text could be best used in a medicinal chemistry course.