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Future of Drug Discovery

"The Future of Drug Discovery: Who decides which diseases to treat? provides a timely and detailed look at the efforts of the pharmaceutical industry and how they relate, or should relate, to societal needs. The authors posit that as a result of increasing risk aversion and accelerated savin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tamas Bartfai
Other Authors: Graham V Lees
Format: Printed Book
Published: Amsterdam Elsevier/Academic Press 2013
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Why there will be new drugs despite the ongoing 'crisis' of drug development in big pharma
  • The need for medicines grows
  • Medicines are becoming better: some of the breakthrough medicines of the past decades
  • Which diseases do we want to treat?
  • Therapeutic Areas: strategically important diseases for the future
  • Blockbuster proprietary drugs versus generic drugs
  • Why is pharma a special industry?
  • Diagnosing toward personalized medicine
  • Personalized medicine
  • How much can drugs cost?
  • Modeling Drug Discovery until 2025
  • Drug development models between 2010 & 2025.