The Biotech Business Handbook: How to Organize and Operate a Biotechnology Business, Including the Most Promising Applications for the 1990s - Softcover

Pappas, Michael G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0896033201 ISBN 13: 9780896033207

Publisher: Humana, 1994

Synopsis

One comment often repeated to me by coworkers in the biotechnology industry deals with their frustration at not understanding how their particular roles fit into their company's overall scheme for developing, manufacturing, and marketing biomedical products. Although these workers know their fields of specialty and responsibilities very well, whether it be in product research and development, regulatory affairs, manufacturing, packaging, quality control, or marketing and sales, they for the most part lack an understanding of precisely how their own contributory pieces fit into the overall scheme of the corporate biotechnology puzzle. The Biotech Business Handbook was written to assist the biotechnologist-whether a tech­ nician, senior scientist, manager, marketing representative, or college student interested in entering the field-in building a practical knowledge base of the rapidly expanding and maturing biotechnology segment of the healthcare industry. Because biotechnology in the United States and abroad covers many disciplines, much of the information presented in this book deals with the biomedical diagnostic aspects of the industry. Business subjects for the most part unfamiliar to technically oriented people, such as the types of biotechnology corpo­ rations, their business and corporate structures, their financing, patent, and trademark mat­ ters, their special legal issues, and the contributions of their consultants are treated in a manner designed to make them clear and understandable.

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Review

...effectively brings together the many diverse elements that comprise the building of a biotechnology company...a very useful compendium of information that should find its place in the library of every biotech/venture capital company...may help many a new company...-Drug Development Research

Synopsis

Dr. Michael G. Pappas has distilled in this remarkable, nearly 500-page ring-bound handbook over twenty years' experience as a research scientist at the bench, a senior manager wrestling with day-to-day business problems, and as a consultant providing critical expertise to small-to-medium size biotechnology firms and the federal government. The result is a gold mine of information about the industry and a solid foundation for starting and managing a new business in the biotechnology segment of the healthcare industry. On the business side, The BioBusiness Handbook illuminates how the individual parts of a company interact and work together and discusses in detail the stages and methods of product development, the secrets of quality control and assurance, how biotechnology products are marketed, the inside story on regulatory compliance, and navigating the new drug approval process. On the science side of the business, Dr.

Pappas devotes almost forty percent of the book to summarizing and explaining the emerging technologies that will dominate future developments in the next ten years, among them, advances in gene therapy, transgenesis, artificial tissues and organs, diagnostics, bioremediation, nucleic acid probe assays, the human genome initiative, and vaccine, drug, antisense, and third-strand therapies. The BioBusiness Handbook contains over 1100 references to books, periodicals, and scientific journals (including 1994 references) that will round out your knowledge and make you an expert in the business of biotechnology. To receive a detailed brochure about this unique resource, please check the information box on the order form.

Edition details

• Publisher: Humana
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0896033201
• ISBN 13: 9780896033207
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 479