The topic-related series Topics in Medicinal Chemistry covers all relevant aspects of drug
research e.g. pathobiochemistry of diseases identification and validation of (emerging) drug
targets structural biology drug ability of targets drug design approaches chemogenomics
synthetic chemistry including combinatorial methods bioorganic chemistry natural compounds
high-throughput screening pharmacological in vitro and in vivo investigations drug-receptor
interactions on the molecular level structure-activity relationships drug absorption
distribution metabolism elimination toxicology and pharmacogenomics. Medicinal chemistry is
both science and art. The science of medicinal chemistry offers mankind one of its best hopes
for improving the quality of life. The art of medicinal chemistry continues to challenge its
practitioners with the need for both intuition and experience to discover new drugs. Hence
sharing the experience of drug research is uniquely beneficial to the field of medicinal
chemistry. Drug research requires interdisciplinary team-work at the interface between
chemistry biology and medicine.
