The new edition of this best-selling book continues to offer a user-friendly, step-by-step introduction to all
the key processes involved in bringing a drug to the market, including the performance of pre-clinical studies,
the conduct of human clinical trials, regulatory controls, and even the manufacturing processes for pharmaceutical
products. Concise and easy to read, the book quickly introduces basic concepts, then moves on to discuss target
selection and the drug discovery process for both small and large molecular drugs. The new edition features many
key enhancements, including Key Points, Chapter Summary, and Review Questions in each chapter, Answers to Review
Questions provided in a book-end appendix, and one or two carefully selected "mini" case studies in each
chapter.