Small Molecule Medicinal Chemistry

Stressing strategic and technological solutions to medicinal chemistry challenges, this book presents methods and practices for optimizing the chemical aspects of drug discovery. Chapters discuss benefits, challenges, case studies, and industry perspectives for improving drug discovery programs with respect to quality and costs.
•    Focuses on small molecules and their critical role in medicinal chemistry, reviewing chemical and economic advantages, challenges, and trends in the field from industry perspectives
•    Discusses novel approaches and key topics, like screening collection enhancement, risk sharing, HTS triage, new lead finding approaches, diversity-oriented synthesis, peptidomimetics, natural products, and high throughput medicinal chemistry approaches
•    Explains how to reduce design-make-test cycle times by integrating medicinal chemistry, physical chemistry, and ADME profiling techniques
•    Includes descriptive case studies, examples, and applications to illustrate new technologies and provide step-by-step explanations to enable them in a laboratory setting

Werngard Czechtizky is the Head of Medicinal Chemistry of the German Hub of Sanofi, based in Frankfurt, Germany.  She has wide experience in lead generation and lead optimization for central nervous system, cardiovascular and diabetes targets, and her teams have been responsible for a number of leads and clinical candidates in these areas over the last years. She was educated at ETH Zürich and Harvard University, USA.
Peter Hamley is the global head of External Innovation and Sourcing for chemistry, computational chemistry, and screening technologies at Sanofi, based in Frankfurt, Germany.  He spent ten years at AstraZeneca in the United Kingdom, and then moved to Sanofi as a medicinal chemistry leader, building their automated chemistry capabilities and natural product technology. He was educated at Imperial College, London, the University of Cambridge and the University of Pennsylvania.