New PDF release: The Drug Hunters: The Improbable Quest to Discover New

By Donald R. Kirsch,Ogi Ogas

ISBN-10: 151596468X

ISBN-13: 9781515964681

ISBN-10: 1628727187

ISBN-13: 9781628727180

The miraculous, behind-the-scenes tale of the way our medicinal drugs are stumbled on, instructed via a veteran drug hunter.

The seek to discover medicinal drugs is as outdated as illness, that is to claim as outdated because the human race. via serendipity— by means of chewing, brewing, and snorting—some Neolithic souls chanced on opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and different worthwhile ingredients. Ötzi the Iceman, the five-thousand-year-old hunter frozen within the Italian Alps, was once came across to have whipworms in his intestines and Bronze-age medication, a worm-killing birch fungus, knotted to his leggings. these days, vast Pharma conglomerates spend billions of greenbacks on state-of the paintings laboratories staffed by means of PhDs to find blockbuster medications. but, regardless of our greatest efforts to engineer therapies, good fortune, trial-and-error, possibility, and ingenuity are nonetheless basic to scientific discovery.

The Drug Hunters is a colourful, fact-filled narrative heritage of the hunt for brand new drugs from our Neolithic forebears to the pros of this present day, and from quinine and aspirin to Viagra, Prozac, and Lipitor. The chapters supply a full of life travel of ways new medicinal drugs are literally came upon, the invention techniques, the blunders, and the infrequent successes. Dr. Donald R. Kirsch infuses the booklet along with his personal services and reviews from thirty-five years of drug looking, no matter if looking for life-saving molecules in mudflats by way of Chesapeake Bay or as a prime technology officer and learn team chief at significant pharmaceutical companies.

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