The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines

Description: The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines [Paperback] Kirsch, Donald R.; Ogas, Ogi and Fernstrom, Dr. Madelyn Product Overview "A must-read for a 'behind the scenes' look at new drug development.” —Madelyn Fernstrom, PhD, NBC News Health Editor. The surprising, behind-the-scenes story of how our medicines are discovered, told by a veteran drug hunter. The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity— by chewing, brewing, and snorting—some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the five-thousand-year-old hunter frozen in the Italian Alps, was found to have whipworms in his intestines and Bronze-age medicine, a worm-killing birch fungus, knotted to his leggings. Nowadays, Big Pharma conglomerates spend billions of dollars on state-of the art laboratories staffed by PhDs to discover blockbuster drugs. Yet, despite our best efforts to engineer cures, luck, trial-and-error, risk, and ingenuity are still fundamental to medical discovery. The Drug Hunters is a colorful, fact-filled narrative history of the search for new medicines from our Neolithic forebears to the professionals of today, and from quinine and aspirin to Viagra, Prozac, and Lipitor. The chapters offer a lively tour of how new drugs are actually found, the discovery strategies, the mistakes, and the rare successes of drug hunters from the US, UK, Germany, and other nations. Dr. Donald R. Kirsch infuses the book with his own expertise and experiences from thirty-five years of drug hunting, whether searching for life-saving molecules in mudflats by Chesapeake Bay or as a chief science officer and research group leader at major pharmaceutical companies. Read more Details Publisher ‏ : ‎ Arcade; Reprint edition (16 Oct. 2018) Language ‏ : ‎ English Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1628729864 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 63 Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 2.54 x 20.96 cm Best Sellers Rank: 959,889 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) 191 in Pharmacy 959 in Alcohol & Drug Abuse Biographies 2,510 in Medical Biographies 191 in Pharmacy 959 in Alcohol & Drug Abuse Biographies 2,510 in Medical Biographies - - *** PLEASE READ NOTE BELOW BEFORE PURCHASING *** Please note the featured photo is drawn from a catalogue and will not necessarily reflect the actual condition or cover edition of the item on sale -- PLEASE REFER TO 'SELLER NOTES' for the more accurate appraisal. Any questions or requests for additional photos, please get in touch and we'd be more than happy to assist. For a portion of our stock we use a fulfilment company to store, package, and ship orders, and for these we unfortunately are unable to take requests for additional photos or other special instructions. - -

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