Pharmaceutical innovation : revolutionizing human health /

Pharmaceutical innovation : revolutionizing human health / edited by Ralph Landau, Basil Achilladelis, and Alexander Scriabine. - Philadelphia : Chemical Heritage Press, c1999. - xxiii, 408 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents

Introduction

1. Innovation in the pharmaceutical industry
2. Discovery and development of major drugs currently in use
3. The role of biotechnology in drug development
4. Pharmaceutical taxonomy of most important drugs
5. The economics of drug discovery
6. Clinical champions as critical determinants of drug development.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Pharmaceutical industry--Technological innovations.
Pharmaceutical biotechnology.
Drug development.

615.19 / PHA