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Translating Molecules into Medicines

Cross-Functional Integration at the Drug Discovery-Development Interface

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Overview

  • First of its kind to integrate precision medicine, biopharmaceutics, and translational approaches
  • Industry performance sets the stage and highlights the need for greater discovery/development integration to improve the efficiency and success rate of bring new medicines to patients
  • Describes how the discovery and developmental environments can learn from each other and leverage each other’s strengths

Part of the book series: AAPS Advances in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Series (AAPS, volume 25)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Discovery, Development and Commercialization of Drug Candidates: Overview and Issues

  2. Druggable Targets, Discovery Technologies and Generation of Lead Molecules

  3. Optimizing Lead Molecules into Drug Candidates

  4. Early Clinical Development of Drug Candidates

  5. Evolution of the Drug Discovery/Development Paradigm

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About this book

Tackling translational medicine with a focus on the drug discovery development-interface, this book integrates approaches and tactics from multiple disciplines, rather than just the pharmaceutical aspect of the field. The authors of each chapter address the paradox between the molecular understanding of diseases, drug discovery, and drug development. Laying out the detailed trends from various fields, different chapters are dedicated to target engagement, toxicological safety assessments, and the compelling relationship of optimizing early clinical studies with design strategies. The book also highlights the importance of balancing the three pillars: sufficient efficacy, acceptable safety and appropriate pharmacokinetics, all of which are crucial to successful efforts in discovery and development. With discussions regarding the combined approaches of molecular research, personalized medicine, pre-clinical and clinical development, as well as targeted therapies—this compendium is a flexible fit, perfect for professionals in the pharmaceutical industry and related academic fields.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Small Molecule Design and Development, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, USA

    Shobha N. Bhattachar, David M. Bender

  • Pharmaceutical Candidate Optimization, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, USA

    John S. Morrison

  • ADME, Drug Disposition, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, USA

    Daniel R. Mudra

About the editors

Shobha N. Bhattachar is a Director in Small Molecule Design and Development at Eli Lilly and Company. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy from Bangalore University, India, and a Master’s degree in Pharmaceutical chemistry from the University of Kansas. Prior to joining Lilly, Bhattachar worked for eight years at Pfizer in Ann Arbor MI, in the Research Formulations group. She has authored/co-authored 15 publications covering wide ranging topics in the field of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Her current interests include the discovery-development interface, clinical candidate selection and developability assessment, clinical formulation development and biopharmaceutical aspects of drug product design.

John S. Morrison earned his doctorate in physical organic chemistry from the University of Western Ontario studying the photochemical mechanisms responsible for the light-struck reaction in beer.  After graduation John joined the Preformulation and Analytical Method Development group of Apotex Inc evaluating drug substances and novel drug product formulations.  He then transitioned to the Discovery Pharmaceutics group of Bristol-Myers Squibb characterizing early drug candidates and establishing delivery strategies for a variety of dosing routes and molecular modalities.  His current role bridges the discovery/development divide, collaboratively supporting multi-disciplinary discovery teams as well as determining and mitigating developability risks for potential clinical drug candidates.  John has also led several AAPS committees and co-organizes the ACS Drug Design and Delivery webinar series.

David M. Bender is  a Senior Research Scientist in Small Molecule Design and Development at Eli Lilly and Co.  He received a B.S in chemistry from Miami University and an M.S. in organic chemistry from Colorado State University where he conducted research into the design and synthesis of novel antibacterial agents.  He joined Eli Lilly and Co. in 1998 as a synthetic organic chemist in Discovery Chemistry Research. In 2009, he joined the Product Research and Development organization, where he has focused on formulation development, small molecule developability, absorption modeling and alternate drug delivery. Mr. Bender is currently a group leader in the Product Design and Developability group, and is responsible for overseeing the design and manufacture of clinical drug product for small molecules entering Lilly’s development pipeline. 

Daniel R. Mudra is Director of ADME at Eli Lilly and Company.  He earned his B.S. from The University of Dayton studying pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic effects of drug-impregnated implants and an M.S. from Loyola University Chicago investigating the biochemical regulation of the p38 kinase pathway.  He earned his doctorate in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from The University of Kansas developing in situ and computational models of absorption studying the effects of excipients on permeability, metabolism and transport.  Dr. Mudra began his industrial research career at XenoTech, LLC and has published on models of P450 induction and inhibition, drug absorption and PK.  Since joining Lilly, he has contributed to projects from target identification to clinical development across a variety of therapeutic areas.  He leads in the incorporation of mechanistic and physiologically based PK modeling including the use of molecular attributes to predict human clearance pathways. 


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Translating Molecules into Medicines

  • Book Subtitle: Cross-Functional Integration at the Drug Discovery-Development Interface

  • Editors: Shobha N. Bhattachar, John S. Morrison, Daniel R. Mudra, David M. Bender

  • Series Title: AAPS Advances in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50042-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50040-9Published: 03 May 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84303-2Published: 20 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50042-3Published: 21 April 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2210-7371

  • Series E-ISSN: 2210-738X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 461

  • Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 81 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology

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