BIO375H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Generation Gap, Medical Device, Oligonucleotide
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Office hours thursday 5-6pm in the lecture room: 2105f. Micheal porter 1985 5 major forces micheal helped to introduce to companies that want to introduce products in markets buyers, suppliers, industry, rivalry, regulations. The success of the product can differ depending on the timing for when the product is released to the market/public timing of stock market nasdaq. E. g. of monoclonal: herceptin (treats breast cancer effective on the her2/neu gene, not effective for all kinds of breast cancer), remicade, avastin, and humira know for. Term test one know the detail of the genes and drugs (found in textbook) Drugs affect certain enzymes drug a and b is useful to treat the same disease, but they are targeting different enzymes drug a is targeting enzyme a and drug b is targeting enzyme b. Drugs biological molecules small molecules. 2 major categories 1) biological molecules 2) small molecules.
