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| ALS 300 |
Molecular Biotechnology |
Animesh Ray |
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Tuesday & Thursday, 9:00-12:00 |
517 Lecture Hall |
| Students will be exposed to the conceptual foundations of biotechnology and the role played by discoveries and applications of molecular biology principles in advancing biotechnology horizons. This is a case-based course in which students will read landmark original papers and patents that shaped biotechnology, and discuss these in the class. |
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| ALS 301 |
Molecular Basis of Disease |
Animesh Ray |
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Wednesday, Friday, 9:00 - 10:20 am |
517 Lecture Hall |
| The course will focus on genes, their products (RNA and proteins) and on the organization, interaction and integration of molecular systems within cells. The impact of systems biology on the study of complex diseases will be presented in a discussion of selected journal articles. |
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| ALS 303 |
Math for Biologist |
Ali Nadim |
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Tuesday, Thursday, 9:30 - 10:50 am |
517-147 |
| Students who take this course will acquire some of the mathematical skills required in the rest of KGI’s MBS curriculum. |
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| ALS 304 |
Biology for Engineers |
Sheldon Schuster |
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Tuesday, Thursday, 8:00 - 9:15 am |
517 Lecture hall |
| Students without previous training in molecular biology and biochemistry will obtain an understanding of fundamental principles otherwise covered in undergraduate coursework, thus providing the foundation for more advanced topics to be covered later |
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| ALS 310 |
Computational and Mathematical Methods for the Applied Life Sciences I |
Ali Nadim |
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Wednesday, Friday; 10:30-11:50 |
517 Lecture Hall |
| Students who take this course will acquire much of the mathematical background required throughout the rest of KGI’s MBS curriculum. |
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| ALS 311 |
Bioinformatics |
Christoph Adami |
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Tuesday, Thursdays: 1:00 - 2:20 pm |
517 Lecture Hall |
| This course introduces basic mathematical and computational tools to understand genes and genomes. |
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| ALS 313 |
Computational and Mathematical Methods for the Applied Life Sciences II |
Ali Nadim |
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Wednesday, Friday; 10:30-11:50 |
517 Lecture Hall |
| This course is focused on probability and statistics with example applications in biology and medicine. |
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| ALS 320 |
Medical Diagnostics |
Angelika Niemz |
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Wednesday, Friday, 9:00-10:20 AM; Extra Lab days also scheduled |
517 Lecture Hall |
| This course provides an overview of the in vitro diagnostics industry and will enable students to acquire the basic knowledge and skills needed to understand and ultimately design diagnostic assays and devices. |
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| ALS 321 |
Medical Devices |
Gail D. Baura |
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Tuesday, Thursday, 9:00-10:20; Labs Monday, 9:00-12:00 or Thursday 11:00-2:00 |
517 Lecture Hall and tbd |
| This course presents an overview of medical devices through the years, from historic breakthroughs to more recently developed devices associated with areas of high job growth. |
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| ALS 330 |
Pharmaceutical Discovery |
Molly B. Schmid |
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Tuesdays, 2:30 - 5:20 |
517 Lecture Hall |
| This course is designed to provide you with an understanding of how pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies discover new drugs. This course will focus on the discovery of small molecule drugs. |
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| ALS 331 |
Bioprocess Engineering Principles |
Matthew S. Croughan |
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Wednesday, Friday; 10:30-11:50 |
517 Lecture Hall |
| Graduates in molecular biology, bioengineering, and many other fields can potentially take advantage of many exciting and lucrative career opportunities in biotechnology development, manufacturing, commercial operations, business development, licensing, and investment fund management. |
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| ALS 332 |
Biologics |
Deb N. Chakravarti |
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Monday and Wednesday, 10:30-11:50 AM |
517 Lecture Hall |
| This course will introduce students to different types of biologics, their production, purification, analysis and regulation. Case studies in purification and characterization of biologics as well as discovery of vaccine targets and vaccine clinical trials will be presented. |
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| ALS 333 |
Pharmaceutical Development |
Gerard Jensen |
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Tuesday, 5:00 - 7:50 |
517 - Lecture Hall |
| This course follows course ALS330 and together these courses are designed to provide an understanding of how pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies discover, develop and bring drugs to market. |
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| ALS 341 |
BioIndustry Ethics & Society |
Brian L. Keeley |
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Thursday, 5:30 pm - 6:20 pm |
517 - Lecture Hall |
| This 15-week course, will cover a number of ethical and broader social issues related to bioindustry, with the goal of familiarizing students with up-to-date thinking on these issues. |
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| ALS 350 |
Financial Accounting |
Ken Ferris |
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Friday, 9:45 - 12:45 pm |
535 154 |
| The goal of the course is to gain an appreciation and understanding of the topics covered. |
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| ALS 351 |
Corporate Finance |
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Friday, 1:00 - 3:50 pm |
517 Lecture Hall |
| The goal of this course is to develop a basic understanding of financial decision making. |
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| ALS 352 |
Organizational Behavior |
Nancy Lam |
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Thursday 3:00-5:50 |
517 Lecture Hall |
| The focus of this course is on the scientific study of behavioral processes in organizations. It highlights critical management issues involved in planning, organizing, controlling, and leading an organization. This course aims to strengthen students’ managerial potential by providing general frameworks, or “foundations,” for analyzing, diagnosing, and responding to complex organizational situations. |
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| ALS 354 |
Bioscience Business Strategy |
Daniel Byrd |
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Monday and Wednesday's 10:30 AM - 11:50 pm |
Burkle 14, CGU Campus |
| This introductory course in strategy is designed to help you beat the odds by improving your ability to perceive and seize success formulas before others do. |
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| ALS 359 |
Introduction to Market Assessment and Market Strategy |
Steven Casper |
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Tuesday, 1:00 - 3:00 and Thursday, 1:00 - 2:20 |
535 152-154 |
| The course will equip students with an understanding of the basic conceptual frameworks in market strategy and market assessment with reference to the life science industries. |
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| ALS 401 |
Biotechnology-based Therapeutics |
Larry Grill |
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Tuesdays, Thursdays; 9:00-10:20 |
517-147 |
| This course will provide students with a background of the scientific basis of some key aspects of biotechnology based drug, biologic and vaccine design, discovery and development process. Students will learn about therapeutic and vaccine targets, and how vaccines and drugs are designed, tested and produced to prevent and/or treat human diseases. |
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| ALS 407 |
Pharmacogenomics |
Animesh Ray |
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Thursday, 3:00 -5:50 |
517-147 |
| The course will provide an in depth analysis of salient examples where genetical thinking has impacted pharmacological sciences, including issues on genetic variability in biochemistry and physiology of drug action, drug uptake and metabolism; the opportunities for discovery and design of new therapeutic agents. |
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| ALS 408 |
In Vitro Diagnostics |
James C. Osborne |
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Tuesday, Thursday 1:00 - 2:20 PM; lab to be scheduled |
Bldg. 517 Rm 121 |
| This course covers emerging, high impact, and high growth rate areas of the in vitro diagnostics industry such as novel immunoassay formats, diagnostic applications of flow cytometry, molecular diagnostics and pharmaco-genomics, personalized medicine and drug diagnostic co-development, point of care diagnostics in developed countries and in global health / limited resource settings, as well as micro-fluidics and nano-technology in diagnostics. |
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| ALS 409 |
High Throughput Technologies for Drug Discovery |
Angelika Niemz |
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517-121 |
| This course focuses on the use of laboratory automation and high throughput technologies in small molecule drug discovery, biomarker discovery, and basic research. |
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| ALS 412 |
Computational Biology for Drug Discovery |
Christoph Adami |
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Thursday, 3:00 - 5:50 |
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| In this course we will cover the application of different computational biology methods to problems important in the science of drug discovery. |
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| ALS 420 |
Advanced BioInstrumentation Laboratory |
Gail D. Baura |
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Monday, 1:00-4:00 pm; Thursday, 2:30 - 5:30 |
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| This course provides in-depth exposure to cardiovascular and imaging devices. Building on the foundation laid by ALS 321 lectures and labs, students review the theory behind the three ALS 321 labs (cardiograph, pacemaker programming, vital signs monitoring, echocardiography) and act as teaching assistants during their delivery. |
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| ALS 421 |
Mammalian Cell Biotechnology Laboratory |
Matthew S. Croughan |
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Bioprocessing Laboratory |
| This half-unit laboratory course provides hands-on experience with many of the techniques and principles taught in the complimentary lecture course, ALS 427. |
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| ALS 422 |
Bioseparations Laboratory |
Matthew S. Croughan |
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TBD |
TBD |
| This half-unit laboratory course provides hands-on experience with many of the techniques and principles taught in the complimentary lecture course, ALS 429. |
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| ALS 423 |
Fundamentals of Commercial Biotech Operations |
Rick Johnston |
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| This course focuses on issues specific to operations in biotechnology, including high variability in process operations, the need for very high supply reliability (no patient goes without) as well as long cycle times for biotech manufacturing. |
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| ALS 425 |
Diagnostic and Device Product Development |
To be announced |
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Tuesday and Thursday, 9:00 - 10:20 |
517-121 |
| This course covers technical and managerial aspects involved in the development and manufacturing of instruments used in the devices and diagnostics industry. |
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| ALS 426 |
Medical Device Development and Market Release |
Gail D. Baura |
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Monday, 9:00 - 11:50 |
535-152/154 |
| This course presents an overview of the Design Control process for product development, which is mandated by the Good Manufacturing Practices of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). To complement Design Control, market release and post-market surveillance topics are also highlighted. |
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| ALS 427 |
Mammalian Cell Biotechnology |
Matthew S. Croughan |
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Thursday, 9:00-10:20 |
535 152-154 |
| The scientific, engineering, and practical industrial aspects of mammalian cell biotechnology will be presented in a series of lectures. |
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| ALS 428 |
Bioprocessing Research |
Matthew S. Croughan |
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Thursday, noon-1:30 |
535 152-154 |
| This course provides the opportunity for students to gain first hand experience in bioprocessing research as part of the bioprocessing community at KGI. |
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| ALS 429 |
Bioseparations |
Ali Nadim |
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Thursday, 10:30 - 11:50 am |
TBD |
| This course provides students with an advanced background in bioseparations science and engineering. |
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| ALS 433 |
Topics in Clinical Research |
To be announced |
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Tuesday, 2:00 - 3:30 and Thursday (online homework session) |
517 - 147 |
| In this course, students will study IRB relations and regulations, discuss the required elements in a clinical research contract and the responsibilities of the clinical researcher, identify effective use of research personnel, and develop negotiating skills to facilitate support for clinical research. |
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| ALS 434 |
Biostatistics (CGH) |
To be announced |
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Wednesday, 4:00 - 6:30 pm |
CGU - Academic Computing Building 113 |
| The overall objectives of this course are to provide students with a conceptual understanding of some basic statistical methods commonly used and encountered in clinical, public health, epidemiological, and experimental research. |
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| ALS 435 |
Medical Device and Biologics Regulatory Affairs |
Gail D. Baura |
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Friday, 1:00 - 3:50 pm |
535- 152/154 |
| This course examines the operational, strategic and commercial aspects of the regulatory approval process for new medical devices, biologics, and combination products in the United States. |
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| ALS 436 |
Small Molecule Regulatory Affairs |
Gerard Jensen |
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Thursdays, 5:30 to 8:20 PM |
517 Lecture Hall |
| This course will examine operational, strategic and commercial aspects of the regulatory approval process for new drugs in the United States. |
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| ALS 437, 438 |
Introduction to Clinical Pharmacology |
Alan Rothfeld |
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Friday; 11:30-12:30 |
535 152-154 |
| The course attempts to provide a general framework on which to fit future specialized knowledge encountered during a career in the various biomedical fields. Some of the subjects addressed are: underlying principles of pharmacology and clinical biology, assessing and weighing benefits and risks, how physicians select therapies for a given disorder, how side effects are assessed and dealt with, and how issues of cost and compliance are handled. |
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| ALS 445 |
Agricultural Biotechnology |
Norm Ellstrand |
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Friday, 1:00 - 4:00 |
535 - 152/154 |
| . In this course, we first consider the significance of agriculture at the state, national, and global level. Then, we briefly review the rocky history of agricultural biotechnology, its current regulatory structure, its current opportunities (including its potential role in the future of biofuels) and its current challenges. |
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| ALS 451 |
Biotechnology Intellectual Property and Licensing |
To be announced |
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Saturday, 10:00 am -12:50 pm |
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| This course seeks to provide MBS students who may be interested in becoming either executives, entrepreneurs, technology transfer specialists or scientists with an overview and appreciation of the important legal subjects and skills necessary to operate a successful enterprise. |
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| ALS 452 |
Applied Entrepreneurship Practicum |
To be announced |
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TBD |
| This course offers students the opportunity to assist in the process of technology transfer from KGI laboratory research to the commercial realm. |
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| ALS 453 |
Biotechnology Intellectual Property- An Integrated Approach |
Karol Pessin |
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Thursday, 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM |
535, Room 152 |
| For the biopharma industry, intellectual property is key for both market exclusivity and market entry. Informed intellectual property decisions involve considerations of all aspects of the business-- from research and regulatory issues to finance and ethics. |
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| ALS 454 |
International Business and Global Health |
Steven Casper |
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Monday, Thursday; 10:30-11:50 am |
535 152-154 |
| This course will equip students with tools to effectively understand global marketplace issues within the life sciences. |
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| ALS 455 |
Building a Biomedical Enterprise: Strategic and Organizational Dynamics |
Steven Casper |
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Monday, 10:30-11:50; Thursday, 1:30-2:50 |
535 152-154 |
| This course will teach students to effectively analyze strategic and organizational dilemmas facing biomedical companies in different stages of development. |
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| ALS 456 |
Managing Strategic Networks |
Daniel Byrd |
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Tuesday and Thursday, 1:00 - 2:20 |
Burkle 14, CGU |
| This course examines the role of networks within industries and within firms in allowing some companies to outsmart and outperform others. |
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| ALS 458 |
Applied Entrepreneurship: Creating a New Business and Writing Its Business Plan |
Molly B. Schmid |
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Friday; 1:00-3:50 PM |
535 152-154 |
| The focus of this course is on the concepts and practice of creating a new business in the applied life sciences. |
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| ALS 459 |
Project Management: A Dynamic View |
Phil Barnett |
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Tuesday, 3:30-6:20 pm |
535-154 |
| Students will obtain an introduction to the challenges of managing leading edge high technology projects within a highly complex and diverse industry. |
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