Sean Ekins 
Computational Toxicology 
Risk Assessment for Chemicals

A key resource for toxicologists across a broad spectrum of fields, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of molecular modelling approaches and strategies applied to risk assessment for pharmaceutical and environmental chemicals.

* Provides a perspective of what is currently achievable with computational toxicology and a view to future developments

* Helps readers overcome questions of data sources, curation, treatment, and how to model / interpret critical endpoints that support 21st century hazard assessment

* Assembles cutting-edge concepts and leading authors into a unique and powerful single-source reference

* Includes in-depth looks at QSAR models, physicochemical drug properties, structure-based drug targeting, chemical mixture assessments, and environmental modeling

* Features coverage about consumer product safety assessment and chemical defense along with chapters on open source toxicology and big data

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Sean Ekins, MSc, Ph D, DSc has over 20 years of pharmaceutical and toxicology experience. He is the founder or co-founder of two companies and Adjunct Professor at three universities. He has been awarded 16 NIH grants as Principal Investigator. He has authored or co authored over 285 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters and edited five books with Wiley. His research is
focused on collaborations to facilitate rare and neglected disease drug discovery.