Recombinant Protein Drugs (Hardcover, 2001)

Pioneers and business.- Recombinant interferon - the 20th anniversary.- Combining science and business: from recombinant DNA to vaccines against hepatitis B virus.- First generation proteins.- Clotting factors VIII and IX.- Colony-stimulating factors: altering the practice of oncology.- Tissue-type plasminogen activator: helping patients with acute myocardial infarction.- Proteins with new functions: protein engineering.- Designing immunocytokines: genetically engineered fusion proteins for targeted immune therapy.- Further improvement of protein drugs.- Improving protein therapeutics: the evolution of the modern pharmacopoeia.- Principles of gene transfer and foreign protein expression for human gene therapy.- Short biographies.- List of approved "recombinant protein drugs".