Pharmaceutical biotechnology / edited by Carlos A. Guzmán, Giora Z. Feuerstein.

New York : Springer Science+Business Media ; Austin, Tex. : Landes Bioscience, [2009], ©2009.

xxi, 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 S. 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. Guzmán -- 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.].