Hallelujah moments
Subtitle: tales of drug discovery
By: Eugene H. Cordes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
ISBN-13: 9780199337156; 9781306300452
Subjects: MEDICAL / Pharmacology; Drug development; History; Drug Discovery; Pharmaceutical Chemistry; Methods; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Pharmaceutical Preparations
Description: Drug discovery in the pharmaceutical industry has important consequences for the health and wellbeing of people everywhere. However, the general public knows little about the paths through which basic research findings are translated into products that protect or restore human health: the route from the laboratory bench to the bedside. In Hallelujah Moments, Eugene Cordes reveals how some of the most important and influential drugs have been brought into the practice of clinical medicine through the wit and determination of scientists in academia and industry. He shares his firsthand knowledge