

After your graduation you got a job in a pharmaceutical biotechnology company which produce different products including insulin. The company wanted to expand the production by producing two more products: 1- Fast acting insulin. 2- Erythropoietin. You have been asked to submit a detailed proposal describing the steps for the production of these two products, the proposal should include the following: Detailed description of the drug discovery (which approach, which gene, gene accession number if possible), gene manipulation and recombinant DNA technology steps (including which vector, which promoter). Detailed description of the required drug characterization, drug delivery system (justify the selection) Detailed description of the sources of biopharmaceuticals (justify the selection) & upstream processing (in case you selected bacterial and mammalian cell lines).