BME 6310 - Engineering Principles for Drug Delivery

(crosslisted)
(also CHEME 6310)

Fall. 3 credits.

Prerequisites: graduate standing and background in organic and polymer chemistry or permission of instructor.

D. A. Putnam.

Application of engineering design principles to problems in drug formulation and delivery. Specific topics include traditional drug formulation, mechanisms and kinetics of pharmaceutical stability. Stimuli-sensitive systems, controlled-release devices, prodrugs, targeted drug delivery, biomaterials, gene therapy, and governmental regulatory issues.