Immunology for Bioengineers

Catalog description

Immunology is fast growing field that is critical to human health and therapeutic development and engineering. To better prepare bioengineers for a career in immunotherapy and biotech areas, it is essential for them to learn the fundamental knowledge of the immune system and the diseases associated as well as common and emerging technologies used in immunological research. This will not only enable the students to communicate more effectively in a multidisciplinary team, it will also empower them to take advantage of their training in engineering and mathematics to develop tools to analyze the immune system with great depth, solve important questions in immunology, and engineering new therapeutics. Therefore, the goal of this course is to provide the immunology foundation for engineering students and technical background of commonly used tools and emerging technologies in immunological research. The course is open to upper level undergraduate students who have taken courses in biochemistry and/or cell biology.