Pharmaceutical Biotechnology in Drug Development summarizes the key concepts, and latest developments of biotechnology applied to the development of biopharmaceuticals. The book's content is organized in ten chapters. The first four chapters present a comprehensive collection of introductory biotechnology technologies and their modern concept, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic behavior of biopharmaceuticals and modification techniques of amino acids and nucleic acid. Chapters five and six explore therapeutic applications and the status of monoclonal antibodies, gene therapy, immunological preparations and nanoparticles which are the major contributions of pharmaceutical biotechnology. The final group of chapters focus on emerging techniques in the field of pharmaceutical biotechnology to meet current patient and health care demand, such as utilization of transgenic plants and animals, metabolomics, plant-based biopharmaceuticals, identification of new and multiple biological targets, signaling pathways for membrane-spanning receptors, and lead discovery and modification. Pharmaceutical Biotechnology in Drug Development is an essential reference useful for pharmaceutical scientists, clinicians, and academic researchers who want easy access to up-to-date practices of pharmaceutical biotechnology. Corporate researchers will also benefit from this book's succinct and objective content structure.