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Advances in Drug Delivery: Prospects for Vaccination Graduate course / mandatory elective Advanced Lectures of Life Sciences Advances in Drug Delivery: Prospects for Vaccination DRUG DELIVERY: • Approaches, formulations, technologies and systems for transporting a pharmaceutical compound in the body as needed to safely achieve its desired therapeutic effect • Approaches: a variety of delivery routes: p.o. (by mouth), i.v. (intravenous), i.m. (intramuscular), dermal, nasal, ocular, rectal… • Formulations: tablet, capsule, injection, nasal spray, patch… Seite 2 | Advances in Drug Delivery: Prospects for Vaccination Vaccination is currently one of the HOT TOPICS in drug delivery research! Needle free vaccination (nasal, oral, transdermal) Novel adjuvants Vaccines against malaria, HIV, hepatitis, cancer… In the course: • basic concepts of immunology will be introduced in order to understand vaccination concepts and special problems • methods in biochemistry will be introduced in order to understand study designs • common drug delivery problems will be illustrated using the example of vaccination • in assignments and group work an example vaccine formulation will be developed by the students Seite 3 | Semester: 1st-4th semester Master, every summer term Lecturers: Brigitta Loretz, Sarah Gordon Language: English Level of the unit/ Mandatory or not Graduate course / mandatory elective Advanced Lectures of Life Sciences Course type/weekly hours: Lecture and seminar: 2h (weekly) Total workload: Credits: 90 h = 30 h in class and 60 h private study and assignments 3 Entrance requirements: Bachelor degree in science Overview Date Topic 14.04.2014 Introductory Lecture 21.04.2014 Easter Monday 28.04.2014 Basics of Immunology I 05.05.2014 Basics of Immunology II 12.05.2014 Basics of Immunology III 19.05.2014 Methods in Immunology I 26.05.2014 Methods in Immunology II 02.06.2014 Vaccines, antigens and adjuvants 09.06.2014 Whit Monday 5 16.06.2014 Vaccine Formulations 23.06.2014 Vaccine Biopharmacy 30.06.2014 Case study and question session 07.07.2014 Ursapharm Excursion 14.07.2014 Final Exam Please come to the first class this afternoon (seminar topics will be assigned) and sign up to the course by 22 April! Every Monday, 4:15 pm Room 001, E2.1