Plunkett's Guide to Pfizer Inc (PFE) & the Biotech Industry 2008 (Summary)

Published by: Plunkett Research, Ltd.

Published: Aug. 31, 2007 - 38 Pages

Table of Contents

1) A Short History of Biotechnology

2) The State of the Biotechnology Industry Today

3) Ethanol Use Grows Quickly

4) New Money Pours Into Biotech Firms

5) Major Drug Companies Bet on Partnerships With Smaller Biotech Research Firms

6) From India to Singapore to Russia, Nations Compete Fiercely in Biotech Development

7) Gene Therapies and Patients’ Genetic Profiles Promise a Personalized Approach to Medicine

8) New Kinase Inhibitors Are Breakthrough Drugs for Cancer Treatment—Many More Will Follow

9) Pharmaceutical Costs Soar in U.S., Controversy over Drug Prices Rages On

10) Biotech Drugs Pick Up the Slack as Blockbuster Mainstream Drugs Age

11) Biogenerics are in Limbo in the U.S.

12) Breakthrough Drug Delivery Systems Evolve

13) Stem Cells—Controversy in the U.S. Threatens to Leave America Far Behind in the Research Race

14) Stem Cell Funding Trickles in the U.S. at the Federal Level While a Few States Create Funding of Their Own

15) Stem Cells—Therapeutic Cloning Techniques Advance

16) Stem Cells—A New Era of Regenerative Medicine Looms

17) Nanotechnology Converges with Biotech

18) Agricultural Biotechnology Scores Breakthroughs but Causes Controversy/Selective Breeding Offers a Compromise

19) Focus on Vaccines to Counter Potential Bioterror Attacks in the U.S.

20) Ethical Issues Abound

21) Technology Discussion—Genomics

22) Technology Discussion—Proteomics

23) Technology Discussion—Microarrays

24) Technology Discussion—DNA Chips

25) Technology Discussion—SNPs (“Snips”)

26) Technology Discussion—Combinatorial Chemistry

27) Technology Discussion---Synthetic Biology

28) Technology Discussion—Recombinant DNA

29) Technology Discussion—Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

Industry Statistics Overview

Company Profile: Pfizer Inc.

Abstract

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