Pharmaceutical Biotechnology in Drug Development

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Pharmaceutical Biotechnology in Drug Development is written by Muhammad Sajid Hamid Akash and published by Elsevier. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0443191360 (ISBN 10) and 9780443191367 (ISBN 13).

Pharmaceutical Biotechnology in Drug Development summarizes key concepts and the latest developments of biotechnology applied to the development of biopharmaceuticals. Chapters present a comprehensive collection of introductory biotechnology technologies and their modern concepts and cover pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic behavior of biopharmaceuticals and modification techniques of amino acids and nucleic acid. Other sections focus on topics such as gene therapy, immunological preparations and nanoparticles which are the major contributions of pharmaceutical biotechnology. Final chapters discuss emerging techniques in the field of pharmaceutical biotechnology to meet current patient and health care demand. This book is an essential reference useful for pharmaceutical scientists, clinicians and academic researchers who want easy access to up-to-date practices of pharmaceutical biotechnology. Corporate researchers will also benefit from this book's succinct and objective content structure. - Includes key concepts at the foundation of the technology and relevant for protein therapeutics - Explains how advances in other areas such as genomics, proteomics and high-throughput screening have paved the way for exploring new avenues of drug discovery - Covers the importance of biotechnology in the development of new biopharmaceuticals, along with their pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics