Nanomedicine and Advanced Drug Delivery Technologies, 5 cr

Core content

• Benefits of controlled drug delivery.
  The factors affecting the rate of drug delivery.
• Designing organic and inorganic nanomaterials for drug and gene delivery applications.
• Learn state-of-the-art developments in gene therapy, RNA interference, viral and non-viral vectors, immunotherapy, cell based therapy
• Research and the future of drug delivery devices. Ethical and regulatory issues

Complementary knowledge

• Drug delivery kinetics.
• Pros and cons of each drug delivery method and their clinical applications. Challenges in design and the biological barriers
• Understand how human physiology respond to these therapies. New biotechnological advances in treating inherited and acquired human diseases
• Evaluation and analyzing the new drug delivery applications.

Specialist knowledge

• Nanoparticle characterization methods and drug release rates
• Principles of material design and formulation
• Multidisciplinary knowledge in gene and cell based therapies
• Research based learning with key emphasis on understanding recently approved biomedical inventions