Drug Discovery Research (eBook)

Ziwei Huang, PHD, is Professor at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research and Adjunct Professor at the University of California at San Diego. He was previously Assistant Professor at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia (1995-2000) and tenured Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2000-2004). The author or coauthor of numerous publications and patents, Professor Huang has conducted research in cross-disciplinary areas related to drug discovery, medicinal chemistry, biochemistry, and chemical biology and has developed novel therapeutic agents and research probes for treating or studying human diseases. He has organized many international conferences and workshops in drug discovery research in America and Asia. Additionally, Professor Huang has had close interaction with the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries as the founder of several biopharmaceutical companies and consultant for many major biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.

"A valuable resource for scientists ... Chapters in each
section are filled with in-depth biological and chemical data and,
importantly, include worked examples of drugs identified from these
approaches." (The Biochemist, October 2008)

"..the book achieves the objective of the Editor in providing a
useful tool and reference for scientists concerned with
state-of-the-art postgenomic drug discovery...this book will be
of interest to medicinal chemistry, as well as to other concerned
with developing new drug products." (Journal of Medicinal
Chemistry, January 2008)