Pharmaceutical Bioprocess Engineering. 3 credits, 3 contact hours

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Prerequisites: If required, PHEN 500 , PHEN 501 , PHEN 502 and PHB 505 ; PHEN 601 . This course covers the principles and methods to develop and operate bioprocess engineering systems, with emphasis on pharmaceutical bioprocessing and the use of chemical engineering principles to obtain products of therapeutic values. Topics include cell line selection, cell growth kinetics, substrate utilization, product formation, transport phenomena in biosystems, and bioreactors.