TY - CHAP AU - Virgilio Bocanegra-García AU - Abraham García AU - Jose Prisco Palma-Nicolás AU - Isidro Palos AU - Gildardo Rivera ED - Chris Rundfeldt Y1 - 2011-12-07 PY - 2011 T1 - Antitubercular Drugs Development: Recent Advances in Selected Therapeutic Targets and Rational Drug Design N2 - This book represents a case study based overview of many different aspects of drug development, ranging from target identification and characterization to chemical optimization for efficacy and safety, as well as bioproduction of natural products utilizing for example lichen. In the last section, special aspects of the formal drug development process are discussed. Since drug development is a highly complex multidisciplinary process, case studies are an excellent tool to obtain insight in this field. While each chapter gives specific insight and may be read as an independent source of information, the whole book represents a unique collection of different facets giving insight in the complexity of drug development. BT - Drug Development SP - Ch. 9 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/27735 DO - 10.5772/27735 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-29 ER -