Vaccinology

Catalog description

Multidisciplinary course on vaccine development (including technology) from conceptualization through development, testing, and utilization. Addresses 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 preclinical development, manufacturing, and clinical evaluation; importance of the regulatory process; and utilization of epidemiology to measure vaccine need and effectiveness.