Question

how does knowledge of Cellular Biology help you in pharmaceutical /biotech company ?

Answer 1

Cellular biology includes knowledge about various aspects related to cell structure and function. It involves study of composition of cell, how cells communicate, how they divide and how they carry out their metabolic activities.

This knowledge can be of immense importance for a pharmaceutical/biotech company who design drugs.

For any drug to become effective, cellular biology can be exploited in following ways:

1. To understand how "network biology" works. This involves providing insights into intracellular and intercellular signalling, and how drugs bring out a change in this network of complex communication.
2. To determine the exact mechanism underlying pathological events at the basic cellular level.
3. To clarify how multiple factors affect development of disease and how multiple factors are related in response to a drug by a cell. This can help to design patient specific drugs.
4. To provide ways by which cell cycle mechanisms can be exploited to design drugs.
5. To suggest the best type of drug molecule against a particular disease.
6. To understand the difference that exists in response of live/normal cells against dead/cancerous cell.
7. Quantification of cellular data and genomic sequence, and its application to identify the correct target for a drug.
8. To carry out research to check effect of new drugs on cells.