Antiviral Drug Strategies

When my good friend Hugo Kubinyi asked me to put together this book, I was very reluctant for several reasons: why should I, a retired professor, undertake this initiative and knock as I had done so many times before, often in vain, at the doors of young(er) and (more) active colleagues who had much more in mind and at hand than contributing to an old colleague’s book. . . but Hugo was so persuasive and

persistent I could not refuse to engage myself in putting together one more book. Here are the fruits of this endeavor. I do not know whether I will (be able or willing to) ever repeat the exercise, but I was pleased to note that most of those whom I