Drug Design: Principles and Applications

This book offers an in-depth discussion of the latest strategies in the field of drug design and their applications in various disorders, in order to encourage readers to undertake their own projects.It also includes the contemporary application of drug-designing methodologies to inspire others to further expand the utility of this field in other diseases.It is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs, researchers, lecturers and professors in bioinformatics, computational biology, medicine, pharmaceutics and other related fields.

Table of contents (10 chapters)

·         Applications of Computer-Aided Drug Design

Tong, Joo Chuan

Pages 1-7

·         Advanced Drug Discovery for Alzheimer’s Disease: Challenges and Strategies

Haque, Rizwanul (et al.)

Pages 9-29

·         Modern Approaches in Cancer Pharmacology

Goyal, Sukriti (et al.)

Pages 31-43

·         Contemporary Approaches for Malaria Drug Discovery

Sharma, Vijeta (et al.)

Pages 45-56

·         The Story of Kinase Inhibitors Development with Special Reference to Allosteric Site

Behera, Pabitra Mohan (et al.)

Pages 57-68

·         Recent Advances in the Chemotherapy of Visceral Leishmaniasis

Prajapati, Vijay Kumar (et al.)

Pages 69-88

·         Strategies for Tackling Drug Resistance in Tuberculosis

Maveyraud, Laurent

Pages 89-112

·         ADMET Properties: Overview and Current Topics

Zhong, Haizhen A.

Pages 113-133

·         Cheminformatics Approaches in Modern Drug Discovery

Jamal, Salma (et al.)

Pages 135-148

·         Pharmacogenetics and Personalized Medicine

Paolo, Antonello, M.D., Ph.D. (et al.)

Pages 149-168