Biochemistry

The course describes pharmaceutical products and production, with an emphasis on physicochemical and chemical engineering questions. It also describes what happens to the drug product in the living organism when administered through different routes. The course focuses on different pharmaceutical formulations such as solutions, suspensions, emulsions, granulates, tablets, capsules, aerosols, and creams. The course gives an overview of the quality aspects of the pharmaceutical industry, and special requirements on the pharmaceutical industry when it comes to demands from authorities both Swedish and international. The laboratory assignments illustrate important formulation aspects and how to evaluate the quality and physical-chemical properties of the formulation. 

This course introduces basic neuroscience. The scope of the course covers the basic structures and sensory and motor function of the nervous system, as well as the high function of the brain and related diseases. The course provides a broad perspective of how neural information is processed in the brain, and how brain activity determines individual behaviors in response to environmental stress. Text: Mark Bear, Barry Connors, and Michael Paradiso, eds., EXPLORING THE BRAIN.

Innovative drug research has a drug discovery and a drug development phase. In the drug discovery phase, medicinal chemists make molecules and pharmacologists test these molecules. This course challenges students to think of a medical need, to find a target, to come up with a lead, and optimize this lead towards a drug candidate. While performing this structure-based drug design project, students learn about medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, organic chemistry, biochemistry, and some computational chemistry. Concepts of organic chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology, and medicinal chemistry that form the foundation of structure-based drug design are taught in a just-in-time fashion.

This course is about Nanomedicine and its practical applications. Topics include Future medicine-nanomedicine, Nanomedicine, Nanomedicine in diagnostics, Nanomedicine in drug delivery, Nanomedicine in medical device, and Safety issues in nanomedicne.

Assessment: Reports (10%), Mid-term (40%), Final (50%)

Prerequisite: Nanobiotechnology

This course examines the principles of basic biochemistry, including an introduction to metabolism. Topics include glycolysis, gluconeogenesis, glycogen metabolism, citric acid cycle, lipid metabolism, photosynthesis, nucleic acid, protein synthesis, etc.