Biochemical Engineering and Assay Development

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This course is an elective designed to give a broad overview of some topics in the biological engineering field, with emphasis on chemical engineering applications in the biological products industry. The course will be divided into an introductory unit involving the drug development process followed by four separate units. The next unit will focus on enzyme and cell growth kinetics in batch systems. The next part of the class will focus on bioreactor development for cellular products in batch, fed-batch, and continuous systems, and several downstream bioseparation processes, including centrifugation, chromatography and filtration. The final unit will focus on assay development strategies and targeted pathways, including cell death, drug metabolism and toxicity, and cancer.