Furthermore, most people have only the vaguest notion of the criteria by which the effectiveness and safety of modern medicines are measured, and they know almost nothing about the research that has produced our modern pharmacological treasure-trove. A lack of knowledge about drugs almost inevitably has led to a lack of understanding of the societal roles of those institutions that have been the main providers of medicines during the last century. This book represents an attempt to redress this deficiency. A comprehensive story of drug research with all its glorious successes, its paradigm shifts, its new strategies, and its crisis at the brink of the 21st century, where new players have already moved into areas, which for a long time appeared to be reserved for the pharmaceutical industry. Told as a thrilling story.
Big firms are in growing danger of losing their rescarch to small biotech companies that provide .
In Quest of Tomorrow's Medicines an Eminent Scientist Talks About the Pharmaceutical Industry, Biotechnology, and the Future of Drug Research. Die verspielte Zukunft. International Biomedicine Management Partners Inc. All rights reserved.