The right dose differentiates a poison from a remedy
To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.
For thousands of years, long before there was such a thing as a science of chemistry, people were fascinated by plants, because they knew that plants contained substances that could affect people. Coffee will keep you awake. Tobacco contains something that will calm your nerves. Foxglove contains an extract that'll affect your heart.
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.
Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.
The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.
Poison and medicine are often the same thing, given in different proportions
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.
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.
As analytical pharmacologists, what we are allowed to see of a new molecule's properties is totally dependent on the techniques of bioassay we use.
The only difference between a drug and a computer is that one is slightly too large to swallow. ... And our best people are working on that problem, even as we speak.
Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
The moment of the print button for biology is nearing. Effectively, this could also mean that in a not-too-distant future, smart pharmacology will permit us to receive a continuous supply of antidepressants or neuroenhancers every time our dopamine level drops.
Medicine is so fascinating.
Physiology has spawned many biological sciences, amongst them my own field of pharmacology.
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.
We're finally moving out of the realm of solely discussing biology in regards to a drug-based world.
My choice of learning pharmacy was driven by my interests, curiosity, and a desire to seek new medicines for patients.
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.
We may know the chemical structure of medicinal drugs, but we frequently have a very incomplete understanding of how they work.
I've been studying drugs for years.
Even then, Vanderbilt was the premiere place for clinical pharmacology.
Analytical pharmacology has got an important and exciting future.
As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
I took pre-med courses in college.
