Medicinal chemistry isbothscience andart.Thescience ofmedicinal 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 discovery is uniquely beneficial to the field of medicinal
chemistry.
The series Topics in Medicinal Chemistry is designed to help both novice
and experienced medicinal chemists share insights from the drug discovery
process. For the novice, the introductory chapter to each volume provides
background and valuable perspective on a field of medicinal chemistry not
available elsewhere. Succeeding chapters then provide examples of successful
drug discovery efforts that describe the most up-to-date work from this field.