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Perspective

Drug efficiency: a new concept to guide lead optimization programs towards the selection of better clinical candidates

(Director) , (Senior Scientific Investigator) , (VP) & (SVP, Head of Neurosciences Centre of Excellence for Drug Discovery)
Pages 609-618 | Published online: 20 May 2010

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