Olivia Hodges 
Drug Discovery and Evaluation 
Methods in Clinical Pharmacology

Basic Principles of Drug Discovery and Development presents the multifaceted process of identifying anew drug in the modern era, providing comprehensive explanations of enabling technologies such ashigh throughput screening, structure based drug design, molecular modeling, pharmaceuticalprofiling, and translational medicine, all areas that have become critical steps in the successfuldevelopment of marketable therapeutics. The book introduces the fundamental principles of drugdiscovery and development, also discussing important drug targets by class, in vitro screeningmethods, and medicinal chemistry strategies in drug design. It is designed to enable new scientists torapidly understand the key fundamentals of drug discovery.