Erciyes University - Info Package

Course unit title	Level of course unit	Course unit code	Type of course unit	Semester of course unit	Local credit	ECTS credit	Syllabus
MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY	Second cycle	ALA 554		9	4.00	4.00	Print

Description of course unit

Prerequisites and course requisities	No required
Language of instruction	Turkish
Coordinator	ASSOC. DR. Dilşad ONBAŞLI
Lecturer(s)	ASSOC. DR. Dilşad ONBAŞLI
Teaching assitant(s)	None
Mode of delivery	The emphasis of this course will be on theoretical information on the subject.
Course objective	This course aims to give the student an information deal with biotechnological techniques and products for the treatment, drug development by recombinant DNA technology, gene therapy, tissue engineering, monoclonal antibodies, vaccines, serums and some new techniques for pharmaceutical applications.
Course description	Basic information, applications and end approaches for the medical and pharmaceutical biotechnologies

Course contents

1	Introduction to Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
2	Biotechnology in Pharmaceutical Production
3	Recombinant DNA technology and biotechnological drugs
4	Biomaterials
5	Recombinant Hormones, Enzymes
6	Recombinant Vaccines
7	Exam
8	Medical Device and Biotechnological Applications
9	Gene Therapy Applications in Medicine
10	Cellular therapeutics
11	Tissue Engineering
12	Monoclonal Antibodies
13	Antisense Technology
14	Targeted Cellular and Immunological Therapeutic Applications
15	Final Exam
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Learning outcomes of the course unit

1	Students will understand information about basic information for the medical biotechnologies
2	Students will obtain information about applications for the medical biotechnologies
3	Students will interpret information about the latest approachesfor the medical biotechnologies
4	Students will understand information about basic information for pharmaceutical biotechnologies
5	Students will obtain information about applications for pharmaceutical biotechnologies
6	Students will interpret information about the latest approachesfor the pharmaceutical biotechnologies
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Number of stars refer to level of contribution from 1 (the least) to 5 (the most)

Planned learning activities, teaching methods and ECTS work load

	Quantity	Time (hour)	Quantity*Time (hour)
Lectures (face to face teaching)	11	2	22
Study hours out of classroom (study before and after the class)	0	0	0
Homework	0	0	0
Presentation / seminar	1	10	10
Quiz	0	0	0
Preparation for midterm exams	1	5	5
Midterm exams	1	1	1
Project (term paper)	0	0	0
Laboratuar	0	0	0
Field study	0	0	0
Preparation for final exam	1	6	6
Final exam	1	1	1
Research	0	0	0
Total work load			45
ECTS			2.00

Assessment methods and criteria

Evaluation during semester	Quantity	Percentage
Midterm exam	1	20
Quiz	0	0
Homework	1	20
Semester total		40
Contribution ratio of evaluation during semester to success		40
Contribution ratio of final exam to success		60
General total		100

Recommended and required reading

Textbook	1- Pongracz & Keen, Medical Biotechnology, Churchill Livingston, Elsevier; 2-Glick, B.R., Pasternak, J.J., Molecular Biotechnology, ASM Press, Washington, D.C., 1994. 3- Crommelin, D.J.A., Sindelar, R.D., Sindelar R, D., Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Harwood Academic Publishers, Amsterdam, 1997 4- Zito, S.W., Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Technomic Publishing CO., Inc., Lancaster, 1997
Additional references	None

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