Lead Generation Approaches in Drug DiscoveryISBN: 978-0-470-25761-6
Hardcover
308 pages
March 2010
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ZORAN RANKOVIC is a Senior Research Fellow and
Associate Director in Medicinal Chemistry at Schering-Plough
Research Institute, UK. He received his PhD in organic chemistry
from the University of Leeds (UK) before starting his medicinal
chemistry career in 1995 at Organon, UK. Since then, working on
projects over a range of therapeutic areas, including psychosis,
analgesia, and cardiovascular and bone diseases, he gained
extensive experience in all stages of the drug discovery process,
including lead generation. From this work, Dr. Rankovic has
authored or coauthored over fifty scientific publications, book
chapters, and patents, and has given invited lectures at numerous
international conferences.
RICHARD MORPHY is a medicinal chemistry section head at Schering-Plough Research Institute (SPRI) at Newhouse, Scotland. He has twenty years' experience in the pharmaceutical industry, previously working for Celltech and Organon on a wide range of oncology, inflammation, psychiatry, and analgesia projects. In addition to his extensive experience of the lead discovery process, he has a keen interest in the development of medicinal chemistry in emerging economies and is an opinion leader in the area of multi-target drug discovery.