Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: A Focus on Industrial Application covers the development of new biopharmaceuticals as well as the improvement of those being produced. The main purpose is to provide background and concepts related to pharmaceutical biotechnology, together with an industrial perspective. This is a comprehensive text for undergraduates, graduates and academics in biochemistry, pharmacology and biopharmaceutics, as well as professionals working on the interdisciplinary field of pharmaceutical biotechnology. Written with educators in mind, this book provides teachers with background material to enhance their classes and offers students and other readers an easy-to-read text that examines the step-by-step stages of the development of new biopharmaceuticals.
Features:
Discusses specific points of great current relevance in relation to new processes as well as traditional processes
Addresses the main unitary operations used in the biopharmaceutical industry such as upstream and downstream
Includes chapters that allow a broad evaluation of the production process
Dr. Adalberto Pessoa Jr. is Full Professor at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of S
