Daniel Lednicer

New Drug Discovery and Development examines the origins of some of the more popular types of drug therapies that exist today. It surveys a variety of drug categories, and explores how the discovery of each new one leads to the development of related compounds as companies race to enter the burgeoning market....

The past decade has seen a significant increase of research aimed at discovering new drugs for treating cancer, and the increasing number of new antineoplastic drugs approved by regulatory agencies reflects this. Until now, details on the synthesis of these newer agents have been scattered in various journals and in US and European patents. This...

This book examines and evaluates the strategies utilized to design and synthesize pharmaceutically active agents. Significant updates over the last 10 years since the publication of the 1st edition include synthesis of enantiomerically pure isomers, novel chemical methodologies, and new pharmaceutical agents targeted at novel biological endpoints....