Class Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

This unit aims to present the basic principles of pharmaceutical biotechnology. Make known the main products resulting from pharmaceutical biotechnology that are available on the market as well as the main techniques used to obtain them. It aims to provide theoretical and practical concepts on the implementation of systems for the production of biotechnological products. The laboratory classes intend to deepen and directly apply the themes taught in the theoretical classes. 

• Pharmaceutical biotechnology concepts and definitions. Applications, implementation and objectives. 
• Characterization of biological production agents and respective products. Fermentations.
• Introduction to the manufacturing  process. Raw material. Industrial production. Quality control.
• Examples of biopharmaceuticals. Market and limitations.
• Nanotechnology and new products development .
• Recombinant antibodies.
• Vaccines.
• Recombinant proteins.
• Gene therapy.
• Cell therapy.

Within the scope of the curricular unit, videos and documents are made available on moodle to support the subject.  These documents and didactic material allow the visualization of programmatic contents and facilitate the learning of the basic concepts necessary to achieve the objectives stipulated for the chair.  Whenever possible, field trips are made to reinforce the syllabus and whenever possible the collection of samples to be used in the practical work of students in the laboratory.

• Crommelin, D. J., Sindelar, R. D., & Meibohm, B. (Eds.). (2013). Pharmaceutical biotechnology: fundamentals and applications. Springer Science & Business Media.
• Walsh, G. (2013). Pharmaceutical biotechnology: concepts and applications. John Wiley & Sons.