Artificial Organs and Cryobiology Fundamentals

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This course will introduce students to the multidisciplinary knowledge (in thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer, physical chemistry, biology) and methodologies which are required to study cryobiology and artificial organs. It will also provide cryobiology fundamentals, including a cell's response to low temperature, osmotic behavior, and membrane transport at low temperature and activation energy, mechanisms of cryoprotection, and the fundamentals of kidneys and hemodialysis, including type of kidney diseases, different treatments, and kinetic modeling in hemodialysis.