The phrase "a drug development" is not correct in standard English usage.
It should be used as "drug development" without the article "a," as it refers to the process as a whole rather than a singular instance.
Example: "The company is focused on drug development to address unmet medical needs."
Alternatives: "the development of drugs" or "drug discovery process."
Targacept, a drug development company based in North Carolina, has developed a compound that targets a specific type of nicotine receptor known as the alpha-4/beta-2 receptor.
The company has two other divisions -- clinical services, its core operation, and a drug development operation.
Early clinical trials are pivotal steps in the humanization of a drug development project.
An integral component of a drug development programme should be an assessment of dose response.
Earlier lawsuits charged OSI, a drug development company, with issuing misleading statements about the safety of its flagship oncology drug, Tarceva, and exaggerating the size of the market.
She had left the institute in 2001 to get married and move to California, where she went to work for a drug development company that failed.
However, from a drug-development perspective, the biological activity is often not adequately exploited due to poor physicochemical properties.
Merge these two problems — scientific and economic — and the result is a drug-development disaster: the prospects are so discouraging that few companies bother to try anymore.
On Monday, Quintiles said it would acquire a drug-development center in Missouri from Hoechst A.G. for $93 million in cash.
From a drug-development perspective, this study identifies a new cellular and molecular target to treat skeletal muscle fibrosis.
The development of resistance is an inevitable biological process; it's what bacteria do to protect themselves against deadly compounds, whether the compounds were made naturally by other bacteria or artificially in a drug-development lab.
