Clinical Trials
This chapter outlines the different phases of clinical trials, starting with phase I human volunteer studies through to phase III studies in large numbers of patients. The overview includes case histories of a phase I and a phase III trial to illustrate t
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The Science and Business of Drug Discovery Demystifying the Jargon Second Edition
The Science and Business of Drug Discovery
Edward D. Zanders
The Science and Business of Drug Discovery Demystifying the Jargon Second Edition
Edward D. Zanders CEO PharmaGuide Ltd. Cambridge, UK
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Preface
Jargon, according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, can either mean unintelligible words, or gibberish, barbarous or debased language, or else a mode of speech only familiar to a group or profession. Anyone trying to approach the drug discovery industry from the outside might have some sympathy with all these definitions, particularly if required to deal with industry insiders on a professional basis. The language may indeed seem barbarous or like gibberish, but mostly of course it is the mode of speech familiar to the scientists, clinicians, and businesspeople who are responsible for discovering and developing new medicines. All the different professional groups that deal with the pharmaceutical industry will be exposed to the jargon at some point, because the business is highly technical. It is true that a non-scientist in, for example, a technology transfer office, will not be expected to have a detailed knowledge of a product or service being offered to a pharmaceutical company, because that is normally left to technical colleagues. On the other hand, he or she should at least be able to recognize where
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