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Plunkett's Biotech Industry Trends and Statistics (Summary)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Major Trends Affecting the Biotech & Genetics Industry
1
1) A Short History of Biotechnology
1
2) The State of the Biotechnology Industry Today
2
3) New Money Pours into Biotech Firms
5
4) Major Drug Companies Bet on Partnerships With Smaller Biotech Research
    Firms
5
5) From India to Singapore to Russia, Nations Compete Fiercely in Biotech
    Development
6
6) Gene Therapies and Patients’ Genetic Profiles Promise a Personalized
    Approach to Medicine
7
7) New Kinase Inhibitors Are Breakthrough Drugs for Cancer Treatment—Many
    More Will Follow
8
8) Systems Biology May Lead to Faster, More Cost-Effective Drug Development
8
9) Pharmaceutical Costs Soars in U.S., Controversy over Drug Prices Rages On
10
10) Stem Cells—Controversy in the U.S. Threatens to Leave America Far Behind
      in the Research Race

12
11) Stem Cell Funding Trickles at the Federal Level While California Creates
      Funding of Its Own
13
12) Stem Cells—Therapeutic Cloning Techniques Advance
14
13) Stem Cells—A New Era of Regenerative Medicine Looms
15
14) Nanotechnology and Information Technologies Converge with Biotech
16
15) Agricultural Biotechnology Scores Breakthroughs but Causes Controversy
16
16) Breakthrough Drug Delivery Systems Evolve
18
17) Biogenerics are in Limbo in the U.S. 18
18) HapMap Project Moves Ahead
18
19) BioShield Promises $5.6 Billion to Counter Potential Bioterror Attacks
      in the U.S.

19
20) Ethical Issues Abound
19
21) Technology Discussion—Genomics
19
22) Technology Discussion—Proteomics
20
23) Technology Discussion—Microarrays
20
24) Technology Discussion—DNA Chips
20
25) Technology Discussion—SNPs (“Snips”)
21
26) Technology Discussion—Combinatorial Chemistry
21
27) Technology Discussion—Vaccines
21
28) Technology Discussion—Synthetic Biology
21
29) Technology Discussion—Recombinant DNA
22
30) Technology Discussion—Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
22

Chapter 2: Biotech & Genetics Industry Statistics   

23
A Closer Look at the Drug Discovery and Development Process
24
Annual Percent Change in U.S. Research & Development Spending by Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies, 1980-2004

24
Average Salaries in the U.S. Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industries: 2005
25
Domestic R&D Spending as a Percentage of Domestic Sales, U.S. Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies: 1970-2004

26
Generics' Share of the U.S. Drug Market 1984-2004 27
Global Agricultural Biotech At A Glance, 2004
28
Global R&D Investments by Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies:
1970-2004

29
Largest Global Pharmaceutical Companies
30
New U.S. Biotech Drug, Vaccine and Indication Approvals, 1982-2004
31
Profile of U.S. Public Biotech Companies, 2000-2004
32
Total U.S. Biotechnology Patents Granted Per Year, 1989-2004
33
U.S. Biotech Industry Financings, 1996-2004
34
U.S. Drug and Biopharmaceutical Development Times, 1985-2004
35
U.S. Drug Discovery and Approval Process 36
U.S. FDA Approval Times for New Drugs, 1993-2004
37
U.S. FDA Approval Times for New Molecular Entities (NMEs*), 1993-2004
38
U.S. National Science Foundation Biological Sciences Research Funding,
2003-2005

39
U.S. Pharmaceutical R&D Spending Versus Number of New Drug Approvals (NMEs*), 1993-2004

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