BME 6210 - Engineering Principles for Drug Delivery

(crosslisted) CHEME 6310

Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: background in organic and polymer chemistry or permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

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, transdermal drug delivery, biomaterials, and gene therapy.