Description
JOHN WILEY Computational Toxicology Risk Assessment For Chemicals by Sean Ekins
A key resource for toxicologists across a broad spectrum of fields, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of molecular modelling approaches and strategies applied to risk assessment for pharmaceutical and environmental chemicals.
• Provides a perspective of what is currently achievable with computational toxicology and a view to future developments
• Helps readers overcome questions of data sources, curation, treatment, and how to model / interpret critical endpoints that support 21st century hazard assessment
• Assembles cutting-edge concepts and leading authors into a unique and powerful single-source reference
• Includes in-depth looks at QSAR models, physicochemical drug properties, structure-based drug targeting, chemical mixture assessments, and environmental modeling
• Features coverage about consumer product safety assessment and chemical defense along with chapters on open source toxicology and big data
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Sean Ekins, MSc, PhD, DSc has over 20 years of pharmaceutical and toxicology experience. He is the founder or co-founder of two companies and Adjunct Professor at three universities. He has been awarded 16 NIH grants as Principal Investigator. He has authored or co authored over 285 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters and edited five books with Wiley. His research is focused on collaborations to facilitate rare and neglected disease drug discovery.