Vaccinology

Catalog description

This multidisciplinary course is designed to provide the student with an understanding of vaccine development (including technology) from conceptualization through development, testing, and utilization. This course will specifically cover topics on the principles of pathogenesis of infectious diseases, immune protection, and eliciting protective immunity by vaccination; application of traditional and new technologies to vaccine development; principles of pre-clinical development, manufacturing, and clinical evaluation of a vaccine; importance of the regulatory process to vaccine development; and utilization of epidemiology to measure vaccine need and effectiveness.