Pharmaceutical biotechnology
By: edited by Carlos Alberto Guzman, Giora Zeev Feuerstein.
Contributors: Guzman, Carlos Alberto, 1959-; Feuerstein, Giora Z., 1946-
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- v. 655; Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- v. 655.
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media; Landes Bioscience
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York; Austin, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781441911315
Subjects: Pharmaceutical biotechnology; Technology, Pharmaceutical; Biotechnology; Drug Discovery
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Translational medicine: a paradigm shift in modern drug discovery and development: the role of biomarkers / Mark Day, J. Lynn Rutkowski, and Giora Z. Feuerstein; title: Natural products in drug discovery: present status and perspectives / Gabriella Molinari; title: Protein pharmaceuticals: discovery and preclinical development / Davinder S. Gill; title: The role of nanobiotechnology in drug discovery / Kewal K. Jain; title: Conotoxin venom peptide therapeutics / Richard J. Lewis; title: Shark novel antigen receptors: the next generation of biologic therapeutics? / Caroline Barelle, Davinder Gill, and Keith Charlton; title: Immune interventions of human diseases through toll-like receptors / Cevayir Coban, Ken J. Ishii, and Shizuo Akira; title: Genome-based vaccine development: a short cut for the future / Danilo Gomes Moriel ... [et al.]; title: The antigenome: from protein subunit vaccines to antibody treatments of bacterial infections? / Carmen Giefing, Eszter Nagy, and Alexander von Gabain; title: HSV as a vector in vaccine development and gene therapy / Peggy Marconi ... [et al.]; title: Virus-like particles as a vaccine delivery system: myths and facts / Polly Roy and Rob Noad; title: Applications of bacterial ghosts in biomedicine / Petra Lubitz, Ulrike Beate Mayr, and Werner Lubitz; title: Immune modulators with defined molecular targets: cornerstone to optimize rational vaccine design / Thomas Ebensen and Carlos A. Guzmøn; title: Innovative approaches to develop prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines against HIV/AIDS / Aurelio Cafaro ... [et al.]; title: New strategies to overcome the drawbacks of currently available flu vaccines / Epifanio Fichera ... [et al.].