Pharmaceutical Immunology & Vaccinology

Principles of immunology. Antigen/antibodies reactions and applications. Antibody production. Antigen/antibody reaction- allergy. Immunological products. Immunization procedures. Bacterial and viral vaccines. Diagnostic reagents. Immuno sera. Components of humoral and cellular immunity; a detailed treatise of immunoglubulins and antibody systems; antibody structure and formation; monoclonal antibodies; antigenic structure etc. A concise review of various immunological products such as vaccines, immunosera, human immunoglobulins and monoclonal antibodies including techniques for their manufacture. Pharmaceutical immunology including but not limited to engineering antibodies for therapy-production of monoclonal antibodies, recombinant antibodies and antibody fragment. Gene therapy. Description of various classes of vaccines including live-attenuated, killed and, sub-unit vaccines, recombinant vaccines etc. Principles and applications of current diagnostic protocols such as ELISA, Western Blot, Southern Blot, Immunofluorescence etc. Blood and Blood Products.