Book description
This second edition of a very successful book is thoroughly updated
with existing chapters completely rewritten while the content has more
than doubled from 16 to 36 chapters. As with the first edition, the
focus is on industrial pharmaceutical research, written by a team of
industry experts from around the world, while quality and safety
management, drug approval and regulation, patenting issues, and
biotechnology fundamentals are also covered. In addition, this new
edition now not only includes biotech drug development but also the use
of biopharmaceuticals in diagnostics and vaccinations.
With a foreword by Robert Langer, Kenneth J Germeshausen Professor of
Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at MIT and member of the National
Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences. Oliver
Kayser: Oliver Kayser received his PhD at the Free University Berlin in
1997 following his fellowship at the University of Gainesville, Florida,
whereupon he entered the pharmaceutical biotechnology industry. He is
currently a lecturer at the Department of Pharmaceutics, Biopharmacy and
Biotechnology at the FU Berlin, working on new biotech drugs from
natural sources and on the development of drug delivery carriers based
on nanosuspension and solid lipid nanoparticle enterprise technologies.
Prof. Dr. Heribert Warzecha
Studied Pharmazie at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat, Mainz. After
completing his Ph. D. in 1998, he worked first as a postdoctoral fellow
at Cornell, USA, and become associate Professor in wurzburg in 2001.
Since 2007 he is full Professor at the technical university of Darmstadt
and became dean of the Institute of plant science in 2009.
