Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: METABOLIC ENGINEERING FOR GLOBAL HEALTH ENVIRONMENTS

Department: Bioengineering

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): BIOE 260 AND PHYS 126 AND MATH 102

Description: Importance of nutritional and pharmaceutical compounds, impact of cost of compounds on global health; overview of biochemical pathways; Genetic engineering and molecular biology tools for ME; Nutritional molecules; Pharmaceuticals (antibiotics, tamiflu-against influenza virus; anti-parasite compounds against malaria and filarial diseases; anti-diarrhea treatments).