Introduction to Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Volume 3

Introduction to Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Animal tissue culture and biopharmaceuticals offers background information on all aspects of this fascinating subject, including stem cell treatment, in vitro organ systems and cell culture technology. These expression systems can potentially produce a variety of biopharmaceuticals such as hormones, enzymes, cytokines, bone morphogenic proteins, clotting factors, antibodies, fusion protein and glycosylated therapeutic proteins.

Biopharmaceuticals is expected to be a $500 bn market by 2020. It has been predicted that future biopharmaceuticals will become the core pharmaceutical industry, however, this requires immediate transformation in the laboratory and in strategy, technology and operations. This third volume in the Introduction to Pharmaceutical Biotechnology trilogy looks at the fundamental knowledge related to animal tissue culture science such as organ culture, stem cell culture, culture media, animal tissue culture facilities, stem cell culture and current advancements in biopharmaceuticals. This book and the previous two volumes are a must read for undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy and biotechnology students, research scholars and academics.