James Black Quotes

Analytical pharmacology has got an important and exciting future.

I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion.

Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment.

Drug discovery is terribly expensive, just to find out how one drug could or could not work and all its side effects.

In modern pharmacology it's so clear that even if you have a fixed dose of a drug, the individuals respond very differently to one and the same dose.

Even then, Vanderbilt was the premiere place for clinical pharmacology.

We're finally moving out of the realm of solely discussing biology in regards to a drug-based world.

Our femtosecond snapshots can examine a molecule at discrete instants in time.

Physiology has spawned many biological sciences, amongst them my own field of pharmacology.

I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.

Much of my work in biology has been driven by my early training in chemistry. When studying a new chemical compound, the first and most important thing is to determine its detailed molecular structure.

In research, I wanted to establish the medicinal chemistry/bioassay conjugation as an academic pursuit, as exciting to the imagination as astrophysics or molecular biology.

Pharmacology is benefited by the prepared mind. You need to know what you are looking for.

Agarikon contains antiviral molecules new to science. Researchers for pharmaceutical companies may have missed its potent antiviral properties. Our analyses show that the mycelial cultures of this mushroom are most active but that the fruitbodies, the natural form of the mushroom, are not.

Anybody that thought the genome was going to directly provide drugs was a fool. Biological networks are not simple, and making drugs to affect them won't be simple.

All I ever promised was that I was sure I could develop a new pharmacological agent which might answer a physiological question. Any utility would be implicit in that answer.

I really was inspired by the possibility of more directly being involved in the development of drugs myself.

We see chemistry, how the atoms are arranged in the molecules, how the disease changes the arrangement. Perhaps we will find which drug disentangles the aggregates that make a brain senile. Many of us are interested in such things.

We may know the chemical structure of medicinal drugs, but we frequently have a very incomplete understanding of how they work.

My choice of learning pharmacy was driven by my interests, curiosity, and a desire to seek new medicines for patients.

commenting on baseball players who test positive for steroids: It?s an announced test, so you not only failed the steroid test, you failed the IQ test.

Let me start by telling you this: I have never used steroids. Period. I don't know how to say it any more clearly than that. Never.

Even while it's true that we are tied to our molecules and proteins and neurons - as strokes and hormones and drugs and microorganisms indisputably tell us - it does not logically follow that humans are best described only as pieces and parts.

I am against performance-enhancing drugs. I have never taken them and I never will take them.

With more and more states legalizing marijuana, companies are lining up to create the first marijuana breathalyzer. Officials say the toughest part is getting stoners to stop trying to inhale off the breathalyzer.