Drug Delivery Systems: Targeted Therapeutics and Translational Nanomedicine

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The topics include the need for new drug delivery systems (DDS), advantages and applications of biotherapeutic drugs, routes for drug transport in the body, pharmacokinetics and biodistribution, nanocarriers as DDS, targeted drug delivery, challenges with developing new DDS, and translational aspects of new DDS. Directors of the course are Miriam Wattenbarger and Vladimir Muzykantov (Pharmacology). In addition to lectures from the course directors, faculty from engineering and medicine will give guest lectures related to their research interests. The students read current journal articles on DDS. The major group assignment for the course is a written and oral group proposal on a new drug delivery system. Technical communication skills and working with students from different disciplines are an important aspects of the course.