Engineering Controlled Drug Delivery and Nanomedicine

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This course addresses the engineering principles behind the development and understanding of controlled drug delivery systems and nanomedicine. This course focuses on understanding the drug delivery process and industrial-relevant techniques including nanotechnology used for the design of specific formulations. The topics range from general biological barriers to drug delivery and pharmacokinetics, synthetic drug/gene delivery vectors, targeted drug delivery to medical nanotechnology and nanomedicine.