Cancer Therapy and Immunology

Catalog description

This course gives students an overview of the fundamental processes leading to cancer development but with a focus on using drugs, immunological approaches, or interventions to combat these processes. Specifically, the course will focus on drugs targeting the various processes that lead to cancer development. The objective is to impart an understanding of the concept of cancer and the use of drugs or immunological approaches, to combat it in the broadest sense. This will be accomplished by: 1. Imparting an understanding of the basics of cancer biology and how drugs or immunology can be used to combat this disease (e.g., be able to interpret data from the cancer literature involving this material). 2. Know the major processes leading to cancer development as well as current and future drugs that will target these processes. 3. Obtain an understanding of the challenges in cancer drug development and discovery of a cure for the disease. 4. Understand the process of drug discovery and development, the challenges and opportunities inherent in it, and its relation to cancer drug development and treatment. 5. Develop a clear overview of the theory and methods that are used in the overall process of drug discovery and development for the treatment of cancer.