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Informationen zum Autor Dr Geoff Lawton has extensive experience in new medicine discovery across many therapeutic areas in both large and small companies and is a co-inventor of a marketed drug (Cilazapril). He is a former Director of Chemistry at Roche UK, and Vice-president Chemistry and Preclinical Sciences within Roche Bioscience, Palo Alto, USA. He was for five years the research member of a global therapy area strategy planning team for inflammatory diseases, aligning research with the clinical development and marketing parts of the business. From 2003 to 2007 he was founding Research Director with Lectus Therapeutics building from start-up a drug discovery organisation; generating the team, facilities and project portfolio targeting the next generation of ion channel modulating medicines. Since 2001 Geoff has provided scientific and strategic evaluation and advice on drug discovery as an independent consultant for a number small and medium sized biotech companies, CROs, VCs, academic groups and medical research charities. Geoff serves on the Board of Antabio, a French biotech company developing tomorrow’s antibacterial drugs. He is a founder of INMedD, a new medicines discovery social enterprise. Zusammenfassung What defines a quality lead, where these quality leads come from and how one discovers them has been the subject of intense debate within the pharmaceutical industry. This volume addresses these questions and discusses diabetes, obesity and tuberculosis. It presents research in the field of drug discovery.
List of contents
Preface
List of Contributors
Hit and Lead Identification: Efficient practices for drug discovery
DPPIV Inhibition: Promising Therapy for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes
Recent Progress Towards Nonpeptide Ligands for the Melanocortin-4 Receptor
Tuberculosis chemotherapy: recent developments and future perspectives
Subject Index
Author Index (Volumes 1-45)
Subject Index (Volumes 1-45)
