ImmunoEngineering

Catalog description

Immune engineering represents the intersection of engineering and immunology to design new technologies that can be used to better understand the immune system as well as direct it to improve health. Students will gain proficiency in the field by becoming capable of integrating basic concepts in immunology with emerging technologies, understanding primary research literature, critically analyzing data, and designing experiments. Toward this objective, the course will be taught using modules: (1) fundamentals of immunology, covering nomenclature of immunology, components of innate and adaptive immunity, and more; (2) the immunologist's toolbox, covering key experimental tools used to study immune responses, enabling students to critically analyze data in the literature and design experiments; (3) vaccines and immunotherapies, describing established and emerging vaccines and immunomodulatory drugs and mechanisms of action; and (4) the immune engineer's toolbox, providing a foundation of drug-delivery, material science and molecular engineering principles in the context of vaccines and immunomodulatory drugs. Offered as EBME 315 and EBME 405 . Prereq: EBME 306 .