Joaquín M. Campos Rosa

Pharmaceutical Chemistry (eBook, PDF)

Drugs and Their Biological Targets

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Pharmaceutical chemistry (PC) represents a dynamic field of research that plays a pivotal role in the development of life-saving pharmaceuticals. PC is a precise science: One needs to rely on the accuracy of previous discoveries that have provided massive amount of precious information and databases as a solid foundation to move forward. PC is also an art where the artist uses a subtle mixture of knowledge, experimental learning, creativity, intuition, boldness, and serendipity to paint the right canvas.

Nature often serves as a stimulus for pharmaceutical chemists. Many drugs are derived from natural compounds found in plants, fungi, or microorganisms. Chemists study these natural sources, seeking inspiration to design synthetic molecules that mimic the therapeutic properties of the originals while optimizing their characteristics.

Francis Collins, geneticist and expert in the pharmaceutical industry, explains that the molecular cause of 4,000 diseases is no longer a secret to humanity, but there are only treatments available for 250 of them. Therefore, the world requires more professionals who can produce better medicines and solve more needs. For this reason, it is urgent to discover a new system, new drugs, better industrial processes and faster responses for rare and complex diseases. That is the importance and need for more students in love with PC.

It is the author's wish that volumes 1 and 2 of this series may serve as motivation for students who intend to get started in the exciting world of drug design, synthesis and development. There is no nobler objective than improving health and quality of life of the human race. The unprecedented increase in human life expectancy, which has almost doubled in a hundred years, is mainly due to drugs and to those who discovered them. It is more important to create awareness in the student that he/she is responsible for his own learning and not simply a passive consumer of information. In this way we will be able to train versatile professionals with an attitude of transformative social change.

Drug Design and Action is trated in a separate volume ISBN 978-3-11-131654-3. Prof. Joaquín Campos obtained his PhD in Organic Chemistry at University of Granada in 1981. Since 1988 he has been working as a professor of medicinal chemistry at the same university. Prof. Campos serves as the editorial board member in Open Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and is the author of 2 textbooks.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.KG
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783111316888
• Artikelnr.: 70568705

Autorenporträt

JOAQUÍN M. CAMPOS received B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Granada (UGR). He is full Professor in Medicinal and Organic Chemistry. He worked with Professor Ganellin, co-inventor of cimetidine (Tagamet®), at UCL (University College London, UK). He has published 175 papers in international journals with a high impact index, mainly in the fields of Organic Chemistry, Medical Chemistry and Cancer, 14 books and 14 book chapters, 13 national and 17 international patents and supervised 15 Doctoral Theses. He has been involved, for the most part as a responsible researcher in 18 research projects, and 3 research contracts with private companies. He advised the University of São Paulo (Brazil) on novel anticancer and anti-Alzheimer drugs, during the years 2015-17 as Special Visiting Professor. He was awarded the 2010 Teaching Excellence Award from the University of Granada. On March 17, 2016, he received the award from the Social Council of the University of Granada. Heis Regional Editor in Europe for the journal Current Medicinal Chemistry, since August 13, 2016. Current Medicinal Chemistry is a leading journal in the field of Medicinal Chemistry.

As a consequence of his interest in raising the level of internationalization of the UGR and more specifically that of the Faculty of Pharmacy of the UGR, he has been teaching Pharmaceutical Chemistry in the Pharmacy Degree in English for many years, with excellent acceptance among students.