This book captures, in the form of concise papers of limited length, the essence of the latest development in those fields of animal cell technology. We hope that it will become a useful resource of the most up to date information in Animal Cell Technology, at least until the next meeting in May 2003 in Spain. Elisabeth Lindner-Olsson Nathalie Chatzissavidou Elke Lullau Acknowledgements This meeting would not have been possible without the help of a large number of people, some of whom you will find mentioned below. In addition to the Organizing Committee and the Scientific Committee, Mrs Eva...

This book is the lasting product, a resource of up-to-date information in the scientific literature for the field of animal cell technology, as it was presented during a pleasant and stimulating meeting in Tylosand, Sweden, in June 2001. The title of the meeting, From Target to Market, indicates the usefulness of Animal Cell Technology during all steps in the pharmaceutical development process. Following the biotech products reaching the market, it shows an upward trend in the contribution of biotech products to total New Molecular Entity output in the nineties, which continued until 1996...