Biotechnology of Pharmaceuticals - Study plan

Semester

Module offer (ECTS)

Total ECTS

Location

1

Pharmacology (5)

Molecular Biology (3)

Bioengineering I (4)

Separation Methods in Biotechnology (4)

Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Specialization Laboratory I (7)

Two of:

-   Chemistry of Natural Compounds (3)

-   Isolation and Separation of Molecules (4)

-   Scientific Communication (4)

Optional elective courses

30

Prague

2

Pharmacochemistry (5)

Biochemistry of Secondary Metabolites (4)

Bioengineering II (4)

Biotechnological Applications of Microorganisms (4)

Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Specialization Laboratory II (7)

Specialized Practice (3)

One of:

-   New trends in clinical research and development (3)

-   Biologically Active Natural Compounds (4)

Optional elective courses

30

Prague

3

Specialisation Pharmatechnology:

Three of:

- Continuous Pharmaceutical Production

- Pharmaceutical Production Facilities   

- Physicochemical Principles of Pharmaceutics  

- Materials Science

Two of:

- Compound Profiling in Pharmaceutical Drug Discovery

- Bioanalytics in a regulated Environment

- Chromatography and Mass-Spectrometry        

- Biostructures and Solid State Sciences                                                       

Two of:

- Sustainable Process Development

- Process Transfer and Scale-up

- Process Technology for Industrial Pollution control

Specialisation Biotechnology:

Three of:

- Gene- and Cell- Therapeutics

- Continuous Biomanufacturing

- Chromatography and Mass-Spectrometry for Bioanalytics

Two of:

- Cellular imaging

- Advanced Cell Culture Systems

- Genomics

- Pharmaceutical Production Facilities

One of:

- Design of Biopharmaceutical Production Facilities

- Bioanalytics in a regulated Environment

Specialisation Bioanalytics:

Three of:

- Genomics

- Chromatography and Mass-Spectrometry

- Cellular Imaging

- Bioanalytics in a regulated Environment

Three of:

- Biostructures and Solid State Sciences

- Bio-interfaces and Bio-conjugate Chemistry

- Formulation of Biologics and Routes of Drug Delivery

- Compound Profiling in Pharmaceutical Drug Discovery

- Gene- and Cell Therapeutics

All Specialisation:

Further recommended modules

- Handling and Visualizing data

- Design and Analysis of Experiments

- Modelling and Exploration of Multivariate Data

Optional elective courses

20-30

Muttenz

4

Diploma thesis

30

Diploma thesis at UCT Prague

30

Prague

or

Diploma thesis at School of Life Sciences, FHNW

40

 Muttenz