Pharmaceutical biotechnology / edited by Carlos Alberto Guzman, Giora Zeev Feuerstein. 

 - New York : Springer Science+Business Media ; Austin, Tex. : Landes Bioscience, c2009. 
 - xxi, 256 p. : ill. (some col. ), portraits ; 26 cm. 
 - Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 655 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Translational medicine: a paradigm shift in modern drug discovery and development: the role of biomarkers / Mark Day, J. Lynn Rutkowski, and Giora Z. Feuerstein -- Natural products in drug discovery: present status and perspectives / Gabriella Molinari -- Protein pharmaceuticals: discovery and preclinical development / Davinder S. Gill -- The role of nanobiotechnology in drug discovery / Kewal K. Jain -- Conotoxin venom peptide therapeutics / Richard J. Lewis -- Shark novel antigen receptors: the next generation of biologic therapeutics? / Caroline Barelle, Davinder Gill, and Keith Charlton -- Immune interventions of human diseases through toll-like receptors / Cevayir Coban, Ken J. Ishii, and Shizuo Akira -- Genome-based vaccine development: a short cut for the future / Danilo Gomes Moriel ... [et al.] -- The antigenome: from protein subunit vaccines to antibody treatments of bacterial infections? / Carmen Giefing, Eszter Nagy, and Alexander von Gabain -- HSV as a vector in vaccine development and gene therapy / Peggy Marconi ... [et al.] -- Virus-like particles as a vaccine delivery system: myths and facts / Polly Roy and Rob Noad -- Applications of bacterial ghosts in biomedicine / Petra Lubitz, Ulrike Beate Mayr, and Werner Lubitz -- Immune modulators with defined molecular targets: cornerstone to optimize rational vaccine design / Thomas Ebensen and Carlos A. Guzmøn -- Innovative approaches to develop prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines against HIV/AIDS / Aurelio Cafaro ... [et al.] -- New strategies to overcome the drawbacks of currently available flu vaccines / Epifanio Fichera ... [et al.]. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781441911315 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009024877 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Pharmaceutical biotechnology.<br/>Drug Discovery.<br/>Biotechnology<br/>Technology, Pharmaceutical