Pharmaceutical Product Development

Pharmaceutical Product Development is probably the only book of its own kind that is most relevant in the modern context when all pharmaceutical industries, without exception, have to take up product development activity for their survival and further growth. This activity needs the trained manpower, which is usually a constraint because the aspiring personnel have never been exposed to the desired kind of training, both in theory and practice. The editor of this book, Prof. N.K. Jain, is a renowned educationist and researcher with 10 quality books and more than 250 papers to his credit. This very rich experience of Prof. Jain is reflected in the present book. Experts in their respective fields have contributed all the chapters and hence the readers are assured of best possible reading material in challenging area. The book has 19 chapters and provides adequate reading material on various topics covered therein. As the editor states, the matter has been presented keeping in mind the background of the readers and assuming their competency up to a certain level so that the size of the book does not increase unnecessarily. Very exhaustive books are available on the individual topics covered in the book and hence it is a tough task to present the matter relevant to a product development pharmacist. The editor and his team of contributors have definitely rendered a yeoman service to the student community by presenting this concise and to-the-point book at a time when it is most needed.