Books in Drug discovery

Elsevier's Drug Delivery collection is an indispensable resource for scientists and researchers in the pharmaceutical field, exploring the administration of pharmaceutical compounds for therapeutic effects from molecule identification to medication development. It provides comprehensive coverage, including crucial aspects such as drug screening, medicinal chemistry, and preclinical safety assessments. Highlighting emerging trends like precision medicine, AI applications, immunotherapy, and innovative delivery systems, the collection offers insights into the latest advancements and their impact on healthcare.

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The Renaissance in GPCR Research and Drug Discovery

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Terry P. Kenakin
English
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The Renaissance in GPCR Research and Drug Discovery: Receptor Function, Receptor Structure, New Techniques, Characterization of Drug Activity, Drug Discovery is a comprehensive reference for pharmacology researchers. It focuses on utilizing novel aspects of GPCR function for therapeutic advantage and applying new chemical types to modify GPCR behavior. Recent advancements have revitalized GPCR discovery, opening unexplored avenues for new drug development. The book's content is meticulously divided into five distinct parts, covering evolutionary perspectives, novel functions, investigative technologies, therapeutic modalities, and a broad range of GPCR ligands.Beyond these key topics, the book delves into the evolution of GPCRs as drug targets, the mechanisms behind their novel functions, and the latest technologies driving research and discovery. It also highlights new and recently approved therapeutic modalities and provides a broad coverage of GPCR ligands. Edited and authored by leading researchers, this book serves as an essential reference for drug discovery researchers and medicinal chemists, as well as AI researchers exploring this drug discovery space.

Synthesis of Best-Seller Drugs

2nd Edition
November 1, 2025
Ruben Vardanyan + 1 more
English

Synthesis of Best-Seller Drugs, Second Edition provides detailed information on the most popular drugs, using a practical layout arranged according to drug type. Each chapter reviews the main drugs in each of nearly 40 key therapeutic areas, also examining their classification, novel structural features, models of action, and synthesis. Of high interest to all those who work in the captivating areas of biologically active compounds and medicinal drug synthesis, in particular medicinal chemists, biochemists, and pharmacologists, the book aims to support current research efforts, while also encouraging future developments in this important field.

Drug Discovery Approaches for the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disorders

2nd Edition
October 1, 2025
Adeboye Adejare
English

Drug Discovery Approaches for the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disorders: Alzheimer’s Disease, Second Edition delves into the complexities of drug discovery, specifically for Alzheimer's Disease, presenting the necessary paradigm for future success in research and treatment. This edition is thoroughly updated with recent developments in therapeutic strategies, including amyloid hypothesis, tau, apo E, insulin, and others, and introduces a new chapter on drug delivery to the brain. Additionally, the book encompasses diagnosis, epidemiology, drug discovery strategies, current therapeutics, and more, offering a comprehensive approach to Alzheimer's Disease.It covers the latest in targeted drug design, preclinical studies, and animal models, making it an essential resource for pharmaceutical scientists, pharmacologists, neuroscientists, and clinical researchers. Patients and advocacy groups can also gain valuable insights from the overview of current treatments and scientific advancements in the field.

Deep Learning in Drug Design

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Qifeng Bai + 2 more
English

Deep Learning in Drug Design: Methods and Applications summarizes the most recent methods, applications, and technological advances of deep learning for drug design, which mainly consists of molecular representations, the architectures of deep learning, geometric deep learning, large models for drugs, and the deep learning applications in various aspects of drug design. This book will give readers an intuitive and simple understanding of the encoding and decoding of drugs for model training, while deep learning methods profile the different training perspectives for drug design including sequence-based, 2D, and 3D drug design based on geometric deep learning. This book is suitable for readers who are seeking to learn and use deep learning methods and applications for drug discovery and other related fields. Deep Learning in Drug Design: Methods and Applications is particularly helpful to graduate students in need of a practical guide to the principles of the discipline. Established researchers in the area will benefit from the detailed case studies and algorithms presented.

Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Development

1st Edition
February 5, 2025
Gang Liu
English
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Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Development describes the key events and roles of medicinal chemistry in the discovery and development of lead compounds into drugs, including target identification, which is accomplished by using 30 case studies. This book outlines all the stages of drug development, including the discovery of active compounds, research on the pharmacologicalprope... of molecules, and confirmation of drug targets. The role of the case studies is to show the common factors in the successful development of drugs, thereby showing medicinal chemists how best to explore the scientific pathways when developing new drugs. This makes the book especially relevant for senior university students majoring in pharmaceutical sciences as well as graduate students and researchers.

Managing the Drug Discovery Process

2nd Edition
March 9, 2023
Susan Miller + 5 more
English
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Managing the Drug Discovery Process, Second Edition thoroughly examines the current state of pharmaceutical research and development by providing experienced perspectives on biomedical research, drug hunting and innovation, including the requisite educational paths that enable students to chart a career path in this field. The book also considers the interplay of stakeholders, consumers, and drug firms with respect to a myriad of factors. Since drug research can be a high-risk, high-payoff industry, it is important to students and researchers to understand how to effectively and strategically manage both their careers and the drug discovery process. This new edition takes a closer look at the challenges and opportunities for new medicines and examines not only the current research milieu that will deliver novel therapies, but also how the latest discoveries can be deployed to ensure a robust healthcare and pharmacoeconomic future. All chapters have been revised and expanded with new discussions on remarkable advances including CRISPR and the latest gene therapies, RNA-based technologies being deployed as vaccines as well as therapeutics, checkpoint inhibitors and CAR-T approaches that cure cancer, diagnostics and medical devices, entrepreneurship, and AI. Written in an engaging manner and including memorable insights, this book is aimed at anyone interested in helping to save countless more lives through science. A valuable and compelling resource, this is a must-read for all students, educators, practitioners, and researchers at large—indeed, anyone who touches this critical sphere of global impact—in and around academia and the biotechnology/pharma... industry.

Antioxidants Effects in Health

1st Edition
June 16, 2022
Seyed Mohammad Nabavi + 1 more
English
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Antioxidants Effects in Health: The Bright and the Dark Side examines the role that antioxidants play in a variety of health and disease situations. The book discusses antioxidants’ historical evolution, their oxidative stress, and contains a detailed approach of 1) endogenous antioxidants, including endogenous sources, mechanisms of action, beneficial and detrimental effects on health, in vitro evidence, animal studies and clinical studies; 2) synthetic antioxidants, including sources, chemistry, bioavailability, legal status, mechanisms of action, beneficial and detrimental effects on health, in vitro evidence, animal studies and clinical studies; and 3) natural antioxidants, including sources, chemistry, bioavailability, mechanisms of action, possible prooxidant activity; beneficial and detrimental effects on health, in vitro evidence, animal studies and clinical studies. Throughout the boo, the relationship of antioxidants with different beneficial and detrimental effects are examined, and the current controversies and future perspectives are addressed and explored. Antioxidants Effects in Health: The Bright and the Dark Side evaluates the current scientific evidence on antioxidant topics, focusing on endogenous antioxidants, naturally occurring antioxidants and synthetic antioxidants. It will be a helpful resource for pharmaceutical scientists, health professionals, those studying natural chemistry, phytochemistry, pharmacognosy, natural product synthesis, and experts in formulation of herbal and natural pharmaceuticals.

Herbal Bioactive-Based Drug Delivery Systems

1st Edition
March 13, 2022
Inderbir Singh Bakshi + 3 more
English
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Herbal Bioactive-Based Drug Delivery Systems: Challenges and Opportunities provides a wide-ranging, in-depth resource for herbal bioactives, including detailed discussion of standardization and regulations. The book first explores specific drug delivery systems such as gastrointestinal, ocular, pulmonary, transdermal, and vaginal and rectal. It then discusses novel applications for nano, cosmetics, nutraceuticals, wound healing and cancer treatment. Finally, there is a section focusing on standardization and regulation which includes an enhancement of properties. This book is an essential resource for pharmacologists, pharmaceutical scientists, material scientists, botanists, and all those interested in natural products and drug delivery systems developments.

Nanotherapeutics in Cancer Vaccination and Challenges

1st Edition
March 3, 2022
Mahfoozur Rahman + 4 more
English
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Nanotherapeutics in Cancer Vaccination and Challenges consolidates the current research on cancer nanomedicine and therapeutic cancer vaccination to explore the most effective and promising avenues. The book covers cancer vaccines before exploring nanotherapeutics, DNA and mRNA vaccines in cancer treatment. Finally, it considers regulatory and industrial perspectives on cancer vaccination and nanotherapeutics. This resource will be useful for pharmaceutical scientists and researchers focused on biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, vaccine development, and cancer immunotherapy, along with advanced students in these subjects. Cancer is arguably the most complex and challenging disease known to mankind. Over the last two-decades, significant advancements have been made in new and novel concepts of cancer nanomedicines. Therapeutic cancer vaccines may be utilized to inhibit further growth of advanced cancers and/or relapsed tumors that are refractory to conventional therapies, such as surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy.

Chemoinformatics and Bioinformatics in the Pharmaceutical Sciences

1st Edition
May 21, 2021
Navneet Sharma + 3 more
English
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Chemoinformatics and Bioinformatics in the Pharmaceutical Sciences brings together two very important fields in pharmaceutical sciences that have been mostly seen as diverging from each other: chemoinformatics and bioinformatics. As developing drugs is an expensive and lengthy process, technology can improve the cost, efficiency and speed at which new drugs can be discovered and tested. This book presents some of the growing advancements of technology in the field of drug development and how the computational approaches explained here can reduce the financial and experimental burden of the drug discovery process. This book will be useful to pharmaceutical science researchers and students who need basic knowledge of computational techniques relevant to their projects. Bioscientists, bioinformaticians, computational scientists, and other stakeholders from industry and academia will also find this book helpful.

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