Molecular and Cellular Therapy.

Catalog description

Semester course; 2 lecture hours. 2 credits. Prerequisite: PSCI 330 . Enrollment is restricted to students in the B.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences program or by permission of the instructor. The course will explore the most recent advances in molecular and cellular therapies and how they are used to design new treatments to human diseases. Topics will include discovery, development, and manufacturing of molecular and cellular therapies, clinical trials and application of these therapies to disease states, as well as ethical perspectives and regulatory requirements. In addition to didactic lectures the course will include in-class or in-lab demonstrations on topics such as generating therapeutic recombinant human proteins, humanized monoclonal antibodies, gene editing using CRISPR/Cas 9 and mRNA vaccines.