Graduate Catalog

BIOL 583 Emerging Medicines and Technologies

This course will focus on new scientific discoveries that affect, or promise to affect, mankind. The emerging medicines covered in this course include gene therapy, antiobesity and antiaging drugs, mental illness treatments, genetic testing, and cancer research topics. An understanding of the biological basis of each emerging medicine will be focal. Junior and senior science majors and M.S. Biotechnology graduate students. Normally offered in Spring semester only.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

BIOL 235 and BIOL 235L.

Offered

Spring