Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (Paperback)

The book is unique concise up to date resource offering students an innovative adoptive and valuable presentation of the subject. It has been carefully prepared to project central themes emphatically with the help of neat diagrams figures and schematics. It covers all important biotechnological topics of academic and industrial interests. The matter on subjects like immobililzation recombinant DNA technology monoclonal antibodies protein and peptide delivery gene delivery molecular principle of drug targeting and new generation vaccines is appreciable for its content value. The book covers basic topics of undergraduate and postgraduate levels and effectively provides quality concepts and potential problems for nucleation of newer thoughts for research in biotech and newer drug delivery systems. It may be equally valuable to the students from basic sciences.

About the Author
Prof. S. P. Vyas has nearly 22 years of research and teaching experience at both U.G. and PG. levels. He has worked as Manager R&D (New Drug Delivery) in Lupin Laboratories Aurangabad for a period of nearly one year. He is a leading scientist and well-known academician of international repute. Prof. Vyas did his postdoctoral research at the School of Pharmacy University of London (U.K.) under the supervision of Prof. Gregory Gregoriadis a renowned liposomologist.He has been awarded Pt. Lajja Shankar Jha Award for excellence in research in Engineering and Technology by the Govt. of Madhya Pradesh.

He is a recipient of Motan Devi Dandiya Oration Award 1998 and recently he has been honoured with Best Pharmacy Teacher of the Year 2001 Award by APTI. He has written many invited review articles in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews Critical Reviews TM in Therapeutic Drug Carrier Systems Pharmaceutical Research and International Journal of Medicine and written many Chapters in national and international books.Prof. V.K. Dixit has over 25 years of teaching experience. He is conducting research involving tissue culture. He has established a tissue culture laboratory in the department. Prof. Dixit has supervised 20 Ph.D. and about 35 M. Pharm. Scholars. He has over 80 publications in various journals of repute. He has also chaired sessions and delivered special lectures in a number of symposia/seminars. He is well known academician and educationist. He is member of many learned societies. Presently he is the Head Department of Pharmaceutical Science Sagar and is associated with various administrative functions such as Director Collegeate Development Council and Proctor of the Univesity. Prof. Dixit is also the Secretary of The Indian Society of Pharmacognosy. And is a member of AICTE and PCI.

Table of Contents
* Preface
* Introduction and Historical Perspective
* Enzymes
* Immobilization
* Applications of Immobilization
* Fermentation: General Consideration
* Fermentation: Industrial Products
* Plant Cell and Tissue Culture
* Cell, Tissue and Oragan Culture
* Introduction to Genetics
* Recombinant DNA Technology: Concepts, Methodologies and Pharmaceutical Applications
* Drug Delivery Systems in Gene Therapy
* Basic Immunology
* Monoclonal Antibodies and Hybridoma Technology
* Current Trends in Vaccines
* Delivery Consideration of Biotechnological Products
* Molecular Principles of Drug Targeting and Liposomes
* Index