STM publisher Elsevier has announced the publication of five new books within the pharmaceutical sciences reflecting the latest in research and development, including the fourth edition of A Pharmacology Primer: Techniques for More Effective and Strategic Drug Discovery, authored by world-renowned pharmacologist, Dr. Terry Kenakin. These books and others in Elsevier's pharmaceutical sciences portfolio will be on display in the Elsevier booth # 2541 at the 2014 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Annual Meeting and Exposition, November 2-6 in San Diego, CA.
There have been several major developments in drug discovery over the past years, including advances in structure-based drug design and the realisation that drugs do not uniformly activate receptors but rather are biased toward signaling pathways. The revised edition of A Pharmacology Primer equips researchers with the latest research, methods and approaches used for lead optimization in order to further successful drug discovery. Important new topics include in silico analysis of chemical libraries, signaling bias for much improved target selection, and data-driven drug discovery.
Dr. Kenakin is a professor in the Pharmacology Department at University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the recipient of the 2014 Gaddum Memorial Award from the British Pharmacological Society. In addition, he is a member of numerous journal editorial boards as well as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Receptors and Signal Transduction and Elsevier's Current Opinion in Pharmacology.
The new pharmaceutical books are: A Pharmacology Primer: Techniques for More Effective and Strategic Drug Discovery, Fourth Edition by Terry Kenakin; Design and Manufacture of Pharmaceutical Tablets by Reynir Eyjolfsson; Drug Stability for Pharmaceutical Scientists by Thorsteinn Loftsson; The Organic Chemistry of Drug Design and Drug Action by Richard Silverman and Mark W. Holladay.; and Biased Signaling in Physiology, Pharmacology and Therapeuticsby Brian Arey. The books are available on the Elsevier Store and on ScienceDirect, Elsevier's full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from over 2,200 peer-reviewed journals and more than 25,000 book titles.
