Download or read book Medicinal Chemistry of Neglected and Tropical Diseases written by Venkatesan Jayaprakash and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-08-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicinal Chemistry of Neglected and Tropical Diseases: Advances in the Design and Synthesis of Antimicrobial Agents consolidates and describes modern drug discovery and development approaches currently employed to identify effective chemotherapeutic agents for the treatment of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) from a medicinal chemistry perspective. Chapters are designed to cater to the needs of medicinal chemists who work with chemotherapeutic developments for NTDs, as well as serve as a guide to budding medicinal chemists who wish to work in this area. It will introduce rational drug design approaches adopted in designing chemotherapeutics and validated targets available for the purpose.