Nanomedicine.

Catalog description

Semester course; 1 lecture hour. 1 credit. Enrollment is restricted to students in pharmaceutical engineering or with permission of the instructor. This is an introductory course designed to expose students to basic concepts in nanomedicine. Topics to be covered include: introduction to nanocarrier-based drug delivery applications; design of nanocarriers for drug delivery applications; characterization of nanocarriers, including their spatial/temporal controlled-release properties and critical quality attributes; interaction of nanocarriers and the physiological environment; nanocarriers and their dosage forms; nanocarriers for pulmonary drug delivery; nanocarriers for ocular drug delivery; nanocarriers for systemic and lymphatic drug delivery; liposomal drug products; FDA guidance to industry.