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Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (Theory)

By Dr. Prevesh Kumar, Prof. Navneet Verma & Iqra Hasan

Pharmaceutical biotechnology occupies the ground where molecular biology becomes medicine. A student meeting the subject in the fourth semester has learned anatomy, chemistry, and the classical pharmaceutics of small molecules, and now encounters a different kind of drug: the protein grown in a living cell, the antibody raised against a chosen target, the vaccine that trains an immune system, the gene delivered to correct a defect. This book was written to teach that field as one connected discipline rather than a list of techniques.
Category
Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
Target Audience
B.Pharm IV Semester Students
Course Code
BP403T
Syllabus
New PCI 2026 (NEP 2020)
ISBN
978-81-181068-0-7
Lecture Hours
45 Hours (5 Units)

About This Book

A single idea runs through every chapter, from the first page to the last: the arc from gene to product. To supply a human protein as a medicine, its gene is introduced into a host cell, the cell is grown so that it makes the protein, and the product is then recovered, purified, and proven identical in structure and activity to the natural molecule. The molecular biology and the pharmaceutics are two halves of one arc, and the book keeps both in view. Alongside it run three further threads that the reader will meet repeatedly: that every biotech medicine is inseparable from the analysis that characterizes it and the standard that releases it; that cells, microbes, and immune systems are harnessed as factories; and that each technology carries a ledger of benefit, risk, and ethics.

The book follows the BP403T syllabus unit by unit and covers every prescribed topic in full, from monoclonal antibodies and recombinant DNA technology through fermentation and industrial products to gene therapy, genomics, immunology, vaccines, and sera. It is written in a formal academic register, defines each term before using it, derives the mechanisms that examinations test rather than merely asserting them, and illustrates every method and classification with an original, print-ready figure or table. Each chapter opens with measurable learning outcomes tied to the Course Outcomes, and closes with a graded self-assessment of short-answer, long-answer, and multiple-choice questions with model answers written to the university marking pattern.

The aim throughout has been a book that serves three readers from the same pages: the first-time learner meeting the subject, the reviser consolidating it, and the examinee the night before the paper.

Contents

  1. Foundations of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Protein Therapeutics
  2. Monoclonal Antibodies and Antigens
  3. Enzyme Immobilization, Cell Culture and Immobilization Techniques
  4. Genetic Engineering and Recombinant DNA Technology (with PCR)
  5. Recombinant Biopharmaceuticals: Insulin, Interferons, Hepatitis-B Vaccine
  6. Mutations and Types of Mutants
  7. Microbial Biotransformation
  8. Fermentation Technology: Principles, Process Control and Bioreactors
  9. Industrial Fermentation Products and Blood Products
  10. Gene Therapy
  11. Genomics, the Human Genome Project, Bioinformatics and Personalized Medicine
  12. Fundamentals of Immunology, Vaccines and Immunization
  13. Sera, Marketed Biotech Products and Newer Approaches

Followed by a consolidated Glossary.

Keywords

Pharmaceutical Biotechnology Protein Therapeutics Monoclonal Antibodies Enzyme Immobilization Genetic Engineering Recombinant DNA Technology Polymerase Chain Reaction Insulin Interferons Hepatitis-B Vaccine Microbial Biotransformation Fermentation Technology Gene Therapy Human Genome Project Bioinformatics Immunology Vaccines Sera B.Pharm BP403T PCI Syllabus 2026 NEP 2020

How to Cite

Kumar, P., Verma, N., & Hasan, I. (2026). Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (Theory) (1st ed.). WiseLeaf Scientific Ventures. ISBN: 978-81-181068-0-7

DOI: 10.66079/wiseleaf.pharmaceutical-biotechnology-bp403t-flagship.2026

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