Biotech Design I

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This course is the first semester of a two semester biochemical engineering design course sequence on biotechnology. It is a team focused project based course. Student teams take on real world problems and evaluate the commercial and technical potential of biotechnological solutions. The first semester course is primarily conceptual (on paper) design which students can then build and test in the second semester design course, Biotech Design II. Previous projects have included the design of diagnostics, small molecule and protein drugs, cell based therapies, CRISPR based therapeutics as well as novel bioprocesses.