Medicinal chemistry education: What is needed and where is it going?

Drug Development Research

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-8

  Krogsgaard Larsen, Povl ^a   Pelliciari, Roberto ^b   De Souza, Noel ^c   Timmerman, Henk ^d   Triggle, David J ^e   Van Boeckel, C A A ^f   Wasley, Jan ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c Noel de Souza Associates   (India)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^f NV ORGANON   (Netherlands)

^g Simpharma LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMISTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY; NETHERLANDS; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EID: 32544436597     PISSN: 02724391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ddr.20038     Document Type: Review

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