A warm welcome to Derek Lowe who has joined Corante's blogging team to share his knowlege and insight into the complex world of drug development.  

In The Pipeline: Drug Discovery will cover: "recent developments in drug discovery and medicine and the IP issues and financial implications they have, along with general thoughts about research. Also likely to make an appearance: occasional digressions into useful topics like which lab reagents smell the worst." I highly recommend taking a look at the three months of blogs already in his archives.

The future of neurotechnology and the drug development process are intimately related as my blogs on emotions, sensoceuticals and barriers to drug delivery have previously pointed out.  Derek's daily focus on the drug development process along with Richard Gayle's "Living Code" blog on biotechnology will be excellent sources of inspiration and information as I try to untangle our emerging posthuman society.