Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

Cancer Biotechnology

Cancer biotechnology research includes scientists from medicine, biology, physics and engineering disciplines. Research focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms of cancer, and developing diagnostics and drugs for its cure. Cancer research and drug development have recently entered a new era, along with the concomitant emergence of new technologies, such as whole-genome, proteome profiling or exome sequencing; all these new approaches have led to innovative information. There are several reasons for the discrepancies between the large number of possible future drugs and those approved.