The Design and Development of Novel Drugs and Vaccines

The Design and Development of Novel Drugs and Vaccines: Principles and Protocols presents both in silico methods and experimental protocols for vaccine and drug design and development, critically reviewing the most current research and emphasizing approaches and technologies that accelerate and lower the cost of product development. Sections review the technologies and approaches used to identify, characterize and establish a protein as a new drug and vaccine target, cover several molecular methods for in vitro studies of the desired target, and present various physiological parameters for in vivo studies. The book includes preclinical trials and research, along with information on FDA approval.

Autorentext
Tarun Kumar Bhatt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biotechnology, at the Central University of Rajasthan, India. He received his PhD from the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi and gained post-doctoral experience at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California. He has published over 25 articles and has extensive experience researching drug and vaccine development. Surendra Nimesh, UGC Assistant Professor at Central University of Rajasthan, Rajasthan, India. Surendra received his M.S. in Biomedical Science from the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research (ACBR), University of Delhi. He completed his PhD. In Nanotechnology at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR), Delhi. After completing his postdoctoral studies at the Ecole Polyetchnique of Montreal, Surendra joined the Clinical Research Institute of Montreal (IRCM), Canada as Postdoctoral Fellow. After completing his commitment at IRCM, he joined McGill University for short time. He also worked as NSERC visiting fellow at Health Canada, Canada. His research interests include nanoparticles-mediated gene, siRNA and drug delivery.

Inhalt

1. Introduction of structural bioinformatics with respect to drug discovery
   
   2. Target identification and validation
   3. Retrieval of compounds
   4. Lead identification and optimization
   5. Molecular dynamics simulations
   6. An overview of vaccine design
   7. Key steps in the selection of vaccine targets
   8. Epitope prediction and selection of linkers and adjuvant
   9. Design of vaccine constructs
   10. In-silico validation through protein-protein docking
   11. Molecular cloning
   12. Protein expression
   13. Protein purification and desalting
   14. Biological assay
   15. Biophysical methods
   16. Outline of animal study for lead/ vaccine testing
   17. Evaluation of immunogenicity of vaccine candidate
   18. In-vitro evaluation of lead molecule
   19. Medical physiological parameter for lead/vaccine testing
   20. Brief introduction of clinical research and trials
   21. An overview of IND, NDA, approval agencies and FDA post-marketing surveillance
   22. Introduction of Intellectual property rights