Overview
- Gives professionals and students a tool needed to facilitate drug discovery in Africa
- Brings together for the first time challenges and opportunities, as well as a collection of strategies and techniques that need to be considered when developing new drugs in an African setting
- Highlights the remarkable effort made so far in the area of drug discovery research by African scientists and scientists from other parts of the world working on African health problems
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Drug discovery originating in Africa has the potential to provide significantly improved treatment of endemic diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. This book critically reviews the current status of drug discovery research and development in Africa, for diseases that are a major threat to the health of people living in Africa. Compiled by leading African and international experts, this book presents the science and strategies of modern drug discovery. It explores how the use of natural products and traditional medicines can benefit from conventional drug discovery approaches, and proposes solutions to current technological, infrastructural, human resources, and economic challenges, which are presented when attempting to engage in full-scale drug discovery. Topics addressed are varied; from African medicinal plants to marine bioprospecting, pharmacogenetics and the use of nanotechnology. This book brings together for the first time a collection of strategies and techniques that need to be considered when developing drugs in an African setting. It is an unprecedented and truly international effort, highlighting the remarkable effort made so far in the area of drug discovery research by African scientists, and scientists from other parts of the world working on African health problems.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Drug Discovery in Africa
Book Subtitle: Impacts of Genomics, Natural Products, Traditional Medicines, Insights into Medicinal Chemistry, and Technology Platforms in Pursuit of New Drugs
Editors: Kelly Chibale, Mike Davies-Coleman, Collen Masimirembwa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28175-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-28174-7Published: 08 August 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43022-0Published: 20 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-28175-4Published: 09 August 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 440
Topics: Medicinal Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Pharmacy, Medical Biochemistry