Biopharmaceuticals (eBook)

Gary Walsh is a senior lecturer in industrial biochemistry at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He combines industrial experience within the pharmaceutical industry with an extensive teaching and academic research background in pharmaceutical biotechnology. He has published half a dozen highly acclaimed books on various aspects of protein biotechnology. He is on the editorial board of several biopharmaceutical journals and is closely affiliated with the European Association of Pharma Biotechnology, serving as its scientific secretary.

Preface.

Chapter 1. Pharmaceuticals, biologies andbiopharmaceuticals.

Chapter 2. The drug development process.

Chapter 3. The drug manufacturing process.

Chapter 4. The cytokines--the interferon family.

Chapter 5. Cytokines: interleukins and tumour necrosisfactor.

Chapter 6. Haemopoietic growth factors.

Chapter 7. Growth factors.

Chapter 8. Hormones of therapeutic interest.

Chapter 9. Blood products and therapeutic enzymes.

Chapter 10. Antibodies, vaccines and adjuvants.

Chapter 11. Nucleic acid therapeutics.

Appendix 1. Biopharmaceuticals thus far approved in the USA orEuropean Union.

Appendix 2. Some Internet addresses relevant to thebiopharmaceutical sector.

Appendix 3. Two selected monographs reproduced from theEuropean Pharmacopoeia with permission from the EuropeanCommission: I. Products of recombinant DNA Technology; II.Interferon a -2 concentrated solution.

Appendix 4. Manufacture of biological medicinal products forhuman use. (Annex 2 from The Rules Governing Medicinal Productsin the European Community, Vol. 4, Good Manufacturing Practices forMedicinal Products).

Index.

"...contains just about everything that anyone would want to
know about the subject...It's all here in this easy-to-read
textbook." (Biochemistry and Molecular Education,
March/April 2004)

"...well written... (and) copiously illustrated..."
(Chemistry & Industry, 17th January 2005)

"This book should be recommended reading for all
under-graduate course in pharmacy and the pharmaceutical sciences
...". (Cell Biochemistry & Function, March-April
2005)