Pharmacotherapy: Understanding Biotechnology Products (FutureLearn)

Pharmacotherapy: Understanding Biotechnology Products (FutureLearn)

Improve your clinical pharmacy knowledge and learn the principles, techniques and tools used to create biotechnology products. On this course, you’ll enhance your working knowledge of pharmacotherapy by understanding the principles and technologies of therapeutic protein products.

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You’ll study the history and learn about the various techniques and tools involved in making biotechnology products.
Through clinical research and case-based exercises, you’ll explore everything from immunogenicity and formulation to pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.
Ultimately, you’ll discover the full scope of biotechnology products, from bench research to clinical use, and learn how to evaluate PK/PD correlations of biotechnology products.

What topics will you cover?
-History of biotechnology products
-Principles, techniques and tools of biotechnology products
-Immunogenicity of biotechnology products
-Formulation of Biotechnology Products
-PK/PD Correlations of Biotechnology Products
-Biotechnology Products Review

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Improve pharmacotherapy knowledge by understanding principles of biotechnology products.
  • Assess clinical findings with pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics results from clinical research of biotechnology products.
  • Compare different formulations of biotechnology products used in clinical practice.

Who is the course for?
This course is designed for any student or practitioner who’d like to enhance their clinical pharmacy knowledge.
This includes undergraduate pharmacy students, post-graduate pharmacy students, and pharmacists in clinical practice.

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