Tissue analysis – a powerful tool for drug discovery and development

“In order to provide good quality data, we must understand that tissue analysis is no longer an endeavor of a single person or a single functional group.” Tissue analysis is a diverse, exciting and active subfield of bioanalysis. It is not possible to capture everything in a single issue; rather the research and review articles in this special issue offer a snapshot of the current progress and exciting developments on this topic. Tissue analysis is not new. As early as the 1950s researchers had performed tissue analysis to study drug distribution [1] and to establish pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) relationships [2]. Many...