Immune Engineering

Catalog description

This course would target graduate students and upper level undergraduate students. This course introduces to students the concept of immune engineering that ranges from vaccine design to cancer immunotherapy and cutting edge tools recently developed in these areas. It is best suited for graduate students and upper level undergraduate students who have had cell biology and immunology. We will build on the topics covered in Immunology and explore deeper questions and applications in cancer immunotherapy, infection, and auto-immune diseases, and high-throughput immune profiling technologies. The course will use a combination of lectures, journal clubs, and a final project presentation that will be discussed mirroring NIH study section format. The course is open to graduate students and upper level undergraduate students who have taken courses in biochemistry and/or cell biology.