Course Catalog

The aim of this course is to present students with a broad range of topics and also in-depth treatment on selected analytical methods and techniques that have been used in the design and characterization of various pharmaceutical products: from small molecules to biologics.

Prerequisites: Graduate student standing or permission of instructor

Terms: Fall

This course will detail recent advances made in the interdisciplinary field of drug delivery for students with physical, chemical, or biological sciences background. This course will focus on emerging nanotechnologies, biomaterials, and drug delivery platforms, and their biomedical applications, including vaccines, immunotherapies, gene delivery, theranostics, and cell-based therapies. Translation into clinical trials and commercialization will be discussed.

Prerequisites: Graduate students or permission of instructor

Terms: Winter

This course will detail recent advances made in the interdisciplinary field of drug delivery for students with physical, chemical, or biological sciences background. This course will focus on emerging nanotechnologies, biomaterials, and drug delivery platforms, and their biomedical applications, including vaccines, immunotherapies, gene delivery, theranostics, and cell-based therapies. Translation into clinical trials and commercialization will be discussed.

Prerequisites: Graduate students or permission of instructor

Terms: Winter

In 2016 the top selling drugs are monoclonal antibodies, and half of the new drugs approved are biopharmaceuticals and numerous biosimilars are being developed. This class is about how biologic drugs are discovered, manufactured, formulated, analyzed, developed and regulated - now essential information for scientists seeking careers in the pharmaceutical industry.

Prerequisites: Graduate students

Terms: Fall

In 2016 the top selling drugs are monoclonal antibodies, and half of the new drugs approved are biopharmaceuticals and numerous biosimilars are being developed. This class is about how biologic drugs are discovered, manufactured, formulated, analyzed, developed and regulated - now essential information for scientists seeking careers in the pharmaceutical industry.

Prerequisites: Graduate students

Terms: Fall

This course will teach students how to immerse themselves in the environment of cells: picoliter volumes with nanograms of materials containing a few femtomols of drug with hundreds of transporters pumping thousands of molecules per second.

Prerequisites: Graduate student standing

Terms: Winter

This course will teach students how to immerse themselves in the environment of cells: picoliter volumes with nanograms of materials containing a few femtomols of drug with hundreds of transporters pumping thousands of molecules per second.

Prerequisites: Graduate student standing

Terms: Winter

This course covers fundamental concepts essential for the discovery, development and characterization of biopharmaceuticals. Topics include basic immunology, molecular biology and cloning, in vitro protein library generation and screening, antibody discovery and engineering, biophysical characterization, and protein expression and purification.

Prerequisites: Bio 172 or equivalent AND ChE 330 or BiomedE 221 or Chem 230, or graduate standing or enrollment in PharmD program

Terms: Winter

This course covers fundamental concepts essential for the discovery, development and characterization of biopharmaceuticals. Topics include basic immunology, molecular biology and cloning, in vitro protein library generation and screening, antibody discovery and engineering, biophysical characterization, and protein expression and purification.

Prerequisites: Bio 172 or equivalent AND ChE 330 or BiomedE 221 or Chem 230, or graduate standing or enrollment in PharmD program

Terms: Winter

Pharmaceutical Biotechnology plays crucial roles in today's healthcare. The top selling drugs are monoclonal antibodies, and nearly half of the pharma pipeline and newly approved products are biopharmaceuticals. This course will cover the important facets of antibodies, recombinant proteins, and vaccines as pharmaceutical agents. Basics of protein structure and analysis will be introduced, and methods for production, isolation, and purification of recombinant proteins will be described. Potential chemical and physical degradation processes and strategies for circumventing these difficulties will be discussed. We will also explore the immunological basis of vaccinology and immunotherapy, types of vaccines and immunotherapies in the clinic and in the development for cancer, autoimmune disease, and infectious pathogens, including the current CoVID-19 pandemic, and the latest research for antibody-, peptide-, nucleic acid- and cell-based therapeutics.

Prerequisites: Third Year PharmD Students

Terms: Winter

The second in a sequence of three courses needed for the PharmD Investigations requirement. This semester of the series is designed for students to obtain hands on experience in conducting their research and collecting and analyzing all research data. Students work under the supervision of their faculty mentor to develop data collection forms and methods to archive data in a way that facilitates their analysis.

Prerequisites: Pharmaceutical Sciences PharmD Investigations - Research Proposal

Terms: Winter

A continuation of the basic concepts introduced in PharmSci 608 or PharmSci 700. This course emphasizes the application of pharmacokinetics and biopharmaceutics during drug-like property optimization in drug discovery and development.

Prerequisites: Completion of Math 216 or equivalent and PharmSci 608 or PharmSci 700, or permission of the instructor

Terms: Winter

A continuation of the basic concepts introduced in PharmSci 608 or PharmSci 700. This course emphasizes the application of pharmacokinetics and biopharmaceutics during drug-like property optimization in drug discovery and development.

Prerequisites: Completion of Math 216 or equivalent is advised. Completion of PharmSci 608 or PharmSci 700, or permission of the instructor is required.

Terms: Winter

Reports on current studies in the field of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Terms: Fall/Winter

Election for dissertation work by doctoral students not yet admitted to candidacy.

Prerequisites: Advanced doctoral student status

Terms: Fall/Winter

Election for dissertation work by doctoral students admitted to candidacy.

Prerequisites: Doctoral candidacy

Terms: Fall/Winter