New Medicines: How Drugs Are Created, Approved, Marketed and Sold » (New Edition)

BERNICE SCHACTER Ph.D., has over 25 years of biomedical research experience in both academia and industry. She served on the faculty of the School of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and conducted immunology research at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. She also served as Vice President of Research at BioTransplant, Inc., a biotechnology startup company in Boston, MA. She has published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals and is a co-inventor on four issued patents. Since 1994 she has been a biomedical consultant and writer. She has taught immunology to undergraduate, graduate, and medical students and has developed and offered biotechnology courses for liberal studies students at Wesleyan University in Connecticut and at the University of Delaware.

Schacter, a biomedical consultant, leads readers through the maze of the modern drug industry, explaining step by step how new medicines are invented, tested, and regulated. Writing in plain language for the general reader, she looks at controversies surrounding the rise and fall of the COX-2 inhibitors, the strengths and weaknesses of the Food and Drug Administration approval process, and the pharmaceutical industry's new marketing techniques. Annotation © 2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR