The topic-related series Topics in Medicinal Chemistry covers all relevant aspects of drug research, e.g. pathobiochemistry of diseases, identification and validation of (emerging) drug targets, structural biology, drug ability of targets, drug design approaches, chemogenomics, synthetic chemistry including combinatorial methods, bioorganic chemistry, natural compounds, high-throughput screening, pharmacological in vitro and in vivo investigations, drug-receptor interactions on the molecular level, structure-activity relationships, drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, elimination, toxicology and pharmacogenomics. Medicinal chemistry is both science and art. The science of medicinal chemistry offers mankind one of its best hopes for improving the quality of life. The art of medicinal chemistry continues to challenge its practitioners with the need for both intuition and experience to discover new drugs. Hence sharing the experience of drug research is uniquely beneficial to the field of medicinal chemistry. Drug research requires interdisciplinary team-work at the interface between chemistry, biology and medicine.
From the book reviews:
"The target audience ... is primarily researchers in psychopharmacology involved in drug development. ... Each chapter concludes with citations of the pertinent scientific literature. This book covering small molecular therapeutics for schizophrenia would be a useful review for researchers studying this area." (Michael Joel Schrift, Doody's Book Reviews, March, 2015)
"The target audience ... is primarily researchers in psychopharmacology involved in drug development. ... Each chapter concludes with citations of the pertinent scientific literature. This book covering small molecular therapeutics for schizophrenia would be a useful review for researchers studying this area." (Michael Joel Schrift, Doody's Book Reviews, March, 2015)