Ronald P. Evens Editors and Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Editorial Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Chapter/Section Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 This book and CD-ROM contain an extensive discussion of for both public safety and health, industry regulation, and new product development in the pharmaceutical and biotechnol- product approvals. The needs, challenges, and controversies in ogy industries from discovery, to product launch, and through the industry are also addressed throughout the chapters. This life cycle management for the new researcher in academia or book shares how this success and the challenges are acc- industry. The primary goal is the education of new researchers plished by the various groups of specialized people, with all in the academic medical center and industry environments the organization requirements, in compliance with the many about industry-based research and product development. The laws and regulations, and with the many processes and o- perspective is product development (drugs and biologicals) comes necessary from each contributing industry department. especially from the industry situation, along with collabora- This preface and introduction to the book provides a d- tion with medical center scientists. References are quite cussion on the needs and use for the book, brief biographies extensive to support the work, numbering more than 500. The of the editorial board, a brief description of each of the authors collectively have several hundred years of experience authors, acknowledgments, and a list of key information at senior levels in product development in the industry or sources about the industry and related information.