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. Therefore 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
drugability 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. In general special volumes are edited by well
known guest editors.
