Stockwell The Quest for the Cure

The Science and Stories Behind the Next Generation of Medicines
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-52552-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Stockwell, Brent

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Pharmakologie, Toxikologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Chemie Allgemein Pharmazeutische Chemie, Medizinische Chemie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pharmazie
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Pharmazeutische Technologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Part I. The Vanishing Cures
1. The Drug Discovery Crisis
2. A New Science of Molecules
3. The Birth of the First Cancer Drugs
4. A New Company Creating Drug Combinations
5. The Undruggable RAS Protein
6. The Druggable Genome
Part II. The Path to the Next Generation of Medicines
7. Peering Inside Proteins
8. The Nature of Interactions Between Proteins
9. From Protein-Protein Interactions to Personalized Medicines
10. A Revolution in Peptide Synthesis
11. A Vast Array of Drug Candidates
12. Moving Outside the Small Molecule Box
13. Accelerating the Arrival of Next-Generation Drugs
Notes
Glossary
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stockwell Brent:
Brent Stockwell is Associate Professor in the Departments of Chemistry and of Biological Sciences at Columbia University. He is the author of The Quest for the Cure (CUP, 2012).Brent R. Stockwell is an associate professor of biological sciences and chemistry at Columbia University and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist. He serves on the editorial board of Chemistry & Biology, has been awarded ten U.S. patents, and has published fifty-four scientific papers. Among his recent honors are a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface and a Beckman Young Investigator Award.