a suggested course detailing pharmaceutical biotechnology

Recent Trends in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

The foundations of pharmaceutical biotechnology mainly lie in the capability of plants, microorganism and animals to produce low and high molecular weight compounds useful as therapeutics. Although molecules from plants and microorganisms are preferred extraction from plant biomass needs tedious downstream processing while in case of microorganisms it is easy with fewer amounts of impurities. P...

Pharmaceutical applications of biotechnology: promise and reality.

Biotechnology has continued to advance the state of the art in pharmaceutical research and discovery, especially in the generation and screening of molecular diversity [1]. Patents have begun to issue on both chemical [2] and biological [3] strategies for creating and evaluating libraries of compounds. Whether structured or random in design, these combinatorial collections, composed of natural ...

Anaerobic Biotechnology for Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment

The wastewater generated from the pharmaceutical industry contain high organic load and the treatment are primarily carried out using two major types of biological methods; aerobic and anaerobic. However, due to high strength, it is infeasible to treat some pharmaceutical wastewater using aerobic biological processes. As an alternative, an anaerobic process is preferred to remove high strength ...

Biotechnologies: Current Achievements and Prospects Social Acceptance of Biotechnology-derived Products Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists National Biotechnology Conference Short Course: Translational Challenges in Developing Antibody-Drug Conjugates

The American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) National Biotechnology Conference Short Course "Translational Challenges in Developing Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs)," held May 24, 2012 in San Diego, CA, was organized by members of the Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics and Drug Metabolism section of AAPS. Representatives from the pharmaceutical industry, regulatory authorities, a...

High-pressure biotechnology in medicine and pharmaceutical science

High-pressure (HP) biotechnology is an emerging technique initially applied for food processing and more recently in pharmaceutical and medical sciences. Pressure can stabilize enzymes and modulate both their activity and specificity. HP engineering of proteins may be used for enzyme-catalyzed synthesis of fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and production of modified proteins of medical or pharma...