BIOENGR C183
Targeted Drug Delivery and Controlled Drug Release
Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, seven hours. Requisites: Chemistry 20A, 20B, 20L. New therapeutics require comprehensive understanding of modern biology, physiology, biomaterials, and engineering. Targeted delivery of genes and drugs and their controlled release are important in treatment of challenging diseases and relevant to tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Drug pharmacodynamics and clinical pharmacokinetics. Application of engineering principles (diffusion, transport, kinetics) to problems in drug formulation and delivery to establish rationale for design and development of novel drug delivery systems that can provide spatial and temporal control of drug release. Introduction to biomaterials with specialized structural and interfacial properties. Exploration of both chemistry of materials and physical presentation of devices and compounds used in delivery and release. Concurrently scheduled with course C283. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Most Helpful Review
Spring 2025 - I really don’t understand why this class is so poorly rated. Kasko is an incredible professor and if you’re at all interested in pharma/drug delivery this class covers a huge breadth of knowledge (drug delivery methods, PK modeling) that is helpful for industry. The class has no homework assignments just a midterm, final and final project where you develop a novel drug delivery system for a real disease. I will say the class was mainly grad students when I took it, so it took some time to acclimate to the level of knowledge as everyone else. The class is a lot of information but as someone who came in with no bio background it is a do-able class if you put the work in.
Spring 2025 - I really don’t understand why this class is so poorly rated. Kasko is an incredible professor and if you’re at all interested in pharma/drug delivery this class covers a huge breadth of knowledge (drug delivery methods, PK modeling) that is helpful for industry. The class has no homework assignments just a midterm, final and final project where you develop a novel drug delivery system for a real disease. I will say the class was mainly grad students when I took it, so it took some time to acclimate to the level of knowledge as everyone else. The class is a lot of information but as someone who came in with no bio background it is a do-able class if you put the work in.
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