Download or read book Modern Biopharmaceuticals, 4 Volume Set written by Jörg Knäblein and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-10-28 with total page 2074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biopharmaceutical market has come along way since 1982 when the first biopharmaceutical product, recombinant human insulin, was launched. Over 120 such products are currently being marketed around the world including nine blockbuster drugs. The global market for biopharmaceuticals, which is currently valued at US$41 billion, has been growing at an impressive compound annual growth rate of 21% over the previous five years. With over one third of all pipe-line products in active development are biopharmaceuticals, this segment is set to continue outperforming the total pharmaceutical market and could easily reach US$100 billion by the end of this decade.