GLOBAL LEADER
College of Pharmacy

Graduate Course

Syllabus

PHRM6113 Advanced Microbiology 1

  

  • Microbiology is actively researched, and the field is advancing continuously. It is estimated that only about one percent of the microorganisms present in a given environmental sample are culturable and the number of bacterial cells and species on Earth is still not possible to be determined, recent estimates indicate that it can be extremely high. Although microbes were directly observed over three hundred years ago, the precise determination, quantitation and description of its functions is far to be complete, given the overwhelming diversity detected by genetic and culture-independent means.
PHRM6114 Advanced Microbiology 2

  

  • Microbiology is actively researched, and the field is advancing continuously. Especially, this class of microbial pharmacals designed for pharmaceutical education including infectious disease and their therapy, host defense mechanism and drugs related with microorganisms.
PHRM6112 Immunobiology 1

  

  • This class covers the study of all aspects of the immune system in all organisms. It deals with the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and diseases; malfunctions of the immune system in immunological disorders (autoimmune diseases, hypersensitivities, immune deficiency, transplant rejection); the physical, chemical and physiological characteristics of the components of the immune system in vitro, in situ, and in vivo. Immunology has applications in several disciplines of science, and as such is further divided.
PHRM6115 Immunobiology 2

  

  • This class focus immune disease such as autoimmune disease or allergy. It deals with the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and diseases; malfunctions of the immune system in immunological disorders (autoimmune diseases, hypersensitivities, immune deficiency, transplant rejection); the physical, chemical and physiological characteristics of the components of the immune system in vitro, in situ, and in vivo. Immunology has applications in several disciplines of science, and as such is further divided.
PHRM6116 Infectious pathogen

  

  • A pathogen or infectious agent is a microorganism in the widest sense, such as a virus, bacterium, prion, or fungus, that causes disease in its host; the host can be an animal (including humans), a plant, or even another microorganism. There are several substrates including pathways wherein pathogens can invade a host; the principal pathways have different episodic time frames, but soil contamination has the longest or most persistent potential for harboring a pathogen. This class covers pathogenesis of each pathogens.
PHRM6117 Vaccinology

  

  • A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism, and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins or one of its surface proteins. The agent stimulates the body's immune system to recognize the agent as foreign, destroy it, and "remember" it, so that the immune system can more easily recognize and destroy any of these microorganisms that it later encounters. This class covers currently available vaccine and their future.
PHRM6118 Autoimmune disease

  

  • Autoimmune diseases arise from an inappropriate immune response of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body. In other words, the immune system mistakes some part of the body as a pathogen and attacks its own cells. This may be restricted to certain organs or involve a particular tissue in different places. The treatment of autoimmune diseases is typically with immunosuppression—medication which decreases the immune response. This class covers immunopathology and therapy of autoimmune disease.
PHRM6119 Immunotherapy

  

  • Immunotherapy is a medical term defined as the "treatment of disease by inducing, enhancing, or suppressing an immune response". Immunotherapies designed to elicit or amplify an immune response are classified as activation immunotherapies. While immunotherapies that reduce or suppress are classified as suppression immunotherapies. This class covers currently available immunotherapeutics and their future.
PHRM6120 Tumor immunology

  

  • Cancer immunology is the study of interactions between the immune system and cancer cells. It is also a growing field of research that aims to discover innovative cancer immunotherapies to treat and retard progression of this disease. The immune response, including the recognition of cancer-specific antigens is of particular interest in this field as knowledge gained drives the development of new vaccines and antibody therapies. This class covers immune interaction with tumor and currently available anti-cancer immunotherapeutics.
PHRM6121 Cellular immunology

  

  • The study of the molecular and cellular components that comprise the immune system, including their function and interaction, is the central science of immunology. The immune system has been divided into a more primitive innate immune system, and acquired or adaptive immune system of vertebrates, the latter of which is further divided into humoral and cellular components. This class covers the immunological function of cells, organs and systems not normally associated with the immune system, as well as the function of the immune system outside classical models of immunity.
PHRM6111 Advanced Molecular & Cellular Biology 1

  

  • This class offers the first 12 topics covering a wealth of cell and molecular biology (Molecular technology, transcription, DNA-protein interaction, epigenetics). It will provide in‐depth critical discussion of primary literature and emphasize the experimental strategy and the data that led to the conclusions, rather than just the conclusion themselves.
PHRM6122 Advanced Molecular & Cellular Biology 2

  

  • This class offers the second 12 topics covering a wealth of cell and molecular biology (posttranscriptional modification, translation, DNA replication). It will provide in‐depth critical discussion of primary literature and emphasize the experimental strategy and the data that led to the conclusions, rather than just the conclusion themselves.
PHRM6123 Advanced Molecular Biomedicine

  

  • Stem cell biology lies at the intersection of developmental/cell biology and medicine. It holds great promise for regenerative medicine. This course will cover a broad range of topics relevant to adult and embryonic stem cells, such as how they were identified, purified, and characterized. In addition, it will deal with the underlying mechanism how stem cells exhibit pluripotency and self-renewal properties.
PHRM6125 advanced stem cell biology 1

  

  • Stem cell biology lies at the intersection of developmental/cell biology and medicine. It holds great promise for regenerative medicine. This course will cover a broad range of topics relevant to adult and embryonic stem cells, such as how they were identified, purified, and characterized. In addition, it will deal with the underlying mechanism how stem cells exhibit pluripotency and self-renewal properties.
PHRM6126 advanced stem cell biology 2

  

  • Stem cell biology lies at the intersection of developmental/cell biology and medicine. It holds great promise for regenerative medicine. This course will cover a broad range of topics relevant to role of adult and embryonic stem cells during tissue repairing and and organ development process, and their therapeutic application. In addition, it will deal with key experimental methods used in stem cell research fields
PHRM6127 Vascular Biology 1

  

  • This course will expose students to both developmental and pathological aspects of vascular biology. The central goal of the course is to provide basic understanding of important aspects of vascular biology emphasizing the methods by which this knowledge is obtained using a variety of experimental approaches and model organisms. In particular, the first series of vascular biology course will focus on vascular development and the use of model systems to study vascular processes.
PHRM6128 Vascular Biology 2

  

  • This course will expose students to both developmental and pathological aspects of vascular biology. The central goal of the course is to provide basic understanding of important aspects of vascular biology emphasizing the methods by which this knowledge is obtained using a variety of experimental approaches and model organisms. In particular, the second series of vascular biology course will focus on the molecular and cellular mechanisms regulating angiogenesis, atherosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular calcification.
PHRM622 Advanced Human Physiology1

  

  • Physiology deals with the principle of each organ and their roles in human body and it is also designed to make students understand the mechanisms for the maintenance of the body homeostasis.
PHRM623 Advanced Human Physiology2

  

  • Physiology deals with the principle of each organ and their roles in human body and it is also designed to make students understand the mechanisms for the maintenance of the body homeostasis.
PHRM624 Animal Pathophysiology

  

  • Animal Pathophysiology deals with the principle of organ diseases (brain disease, cardiovascular, hepatic and allergic diseases) in experimental animal.
PHRM625 Advanced Cell Physiology

  

  • Advanced Cell Physiology deals with the principle of carious diseases according to each organs and their pathogenesis, pathology and pathophysiology at cellular level.
PHRM626 Advanced Cardiovascular Physiology

  

  • Advanced Cardiovascular Physiology deals with the anatomy and physiological principle of cardiovascular systems.
PHRM627 Hemodynamic Pathophysiology

  

  • Hemodynamic Pathophysiology deals with the principle of various cardiovascular diseases associated with hemodynamic dysfunction and their pathogenesis, pathology and pathophysiology.
PHRM628 Advanced Neutraceutical physiology I

  

  • Advanced Neutraceutical Physiology I deals with the principles of physiological functions of the food or food product that reportedly provides health and medical benefits, including the prevention and treatment of diseases (hypertention, high cholesterolemia. heart disease, liver disease).
PHRM629 Advanced Neutraceutical physiology 2

  

  • Advanced Neutraceutical Physiology II deals with the principles of physiological functions of the food or food product that reportedly provides health and medical benefits, including the prevention and treatment of diseases (allergy, obesity, diabetes).
PHRM621 Advanced Pharmacokinetics 1

  

  • To understand the processes of drug’s absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion in view of kinetic mechanism and to learn the advanced knowledge of pharmacokinetic principles for determination of dose, interval and dosage to establish more effective and safer therapeutics.
PHRM6210 Advanced Pharmacokinetics 2

  

  • To understand the processes of drug’s absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion in view of kinetic mechanism, to learn the pharmacokinetic consideration of disease state and to review and discuss the recent published paper for determination of dose, interval and dosage to establish more effective and safer therapeutics.
PHRM6211 Pharmacokinetic Data Analysis

  

  • To understand the processes of drug’s absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion in view of kinetic mechanism, to consider all the factors (dosage, drug interaction, patients’ disease state etc) and to analyze the pharamcokinetics.
PHRM6212 Advanced Drug Metabolism

  

  • To understand the biotransformation of drugs, expression of drug metabolizing enzyme and regulation mechanism and to learn in vivo/in vitro mechanism fo drug metabolism and factors to affect drug metabolism.
PHRM6218 Advanced Clinical Pharmacokinetics

  

  • To understand required knowledge and method for evaluation of therapeutic and application of pharmacokinetic principle and to learn quantitative therapeutic design for pharmacokinetic parameters, dosage adjustment and expectation of plasma concentration based on each therapeutic monitoring drug.
PHRM6213 Advanced Oncology

  

  • To understand the basic morphological and biological characteristics, molecular carcinogenic property, to learn cancer epidemiology, carcinogenesis, genetic change, oncoges, tumor suppress genes, cell cycle, autophagy and tumor metastatic mechanisms and to apply for chemotherapeutic methodology.
PHRM6214 Advanced Drug Interaction

  

  • To understand the factors to affect the in vitro/in vivo drug-drug interaction in view of pharmacokinetics (absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion) and side effects due to drug-drug interaction and to analyze and evaluate drug-dug interaction results.
PHRM6215 Epigenetics

  

  • To understand the basic concept of DNA methylation and relationship bewteen gene and protein expression changes and disease and to study the basic knowledge of cancer epigenetics, regulation mecanism of DNA methylation and epigenetic methodology.
PHRM6216 Advanced Clinical Pharmacology

  

  • To understand pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic principles in the process of drug effect, factors to determine dose-response relationship in the drug therapy and factors to cause a variety of drug response and to study the therapeutic regimen focusing on dosage based on need and principle of drug therapy considering effect-adversed effects.
PHRM6217 Preclinical Pharmacokinetic Methodology

  

  • To study the basic preclinical pharmacokinetic method for clinical study through understanding in vitro test (physiochemical property and plasma protein binding etc) and in vivo test (pharmacokinetic study in various speices and animal scal-up) in the new drug development and to apply for the clinical trials.
PHRM6315 Advanced instrumental analysis1

  

  • This course provides the theories and applications of instrumental analysis for characterization of structure of small molecular pharmaceuticals derived from organic synthesis or natural products. Instrumental analysis techniques in this course include NMR, IR, UV, MASS, and other spectroscopy.
PHRM6316 Advanced instrumental analysis2

  

  • This course provides the theories and applications of instrumental analysis of biological macromolecules including protein, lipid, and biopolymers. Instrumental analysis techniques in this course include electrophoresis, imaging, and flow cytometry.
PHRM6317 Advanced pharmaceutical analysis 1

  

  • This course will cover various analytical techniques depending on physicochemical properties of analytes and analytical derivatization techniques for sensitive detection and analysis. Introduction and understanding of emerging techniques and trends in drug analysis
PHRM6318 Advanced quality control of drugs

  

  • Advanced quality control of drugs will provide principals and approaches for development of quality control method in drug production.
PHRM6319 AnalysisofPharmaceuticalPreparations

  

  • This course covers the analysis of pharmaceutical preparations during the entire pharmaceutical manufacturing process from the quantitative and qualitative analysis of raw materials to standardization, manufacturing, equipmenting, and final product assays and stability studies will be taught.
PHRM6320 Sample Preparation

  

  • This course will cover the principals of various sample preparation techniques including SPE, LLE, SFE, and headspace sampling. This course will help students choosing appropriate sample preparation techniques to concentrate analytes of interest and minimize interference materials in samples.
PHRM6321 Mass spectrometry

  

  • This course will focus on mass spectrometry including principals, instrumentations (interface, ion source, mass analyzers), and representative applications such as proteomics and metabolomics.
PHRM6322 Chromatography

  

  • This course will cover various chromatographic techniques and separation principals including adsorption, partition, size-exclusion, ion-exchange, and affinity chromatography. And also, this will help students choosing appropriate chromatographic techniques depending on physicochemical properties of various analytes.
PHRM6323 Pharmacometabolomics

  

  • This course deals with the analytical methods of drugs which are used in the preclinical tests. It covers how to analyze drugs and their metabolites from various biological matrix such as urine, plasma, and tissues based on pharmaceutical analysis skills.
PHRM6325 Special topics in Natural Products 2

  

  • This course deals with the de novo synthesis of secondary metabolites in plants in the context of chemical synthesis and enzymatic (genetic) approaches.
PHRM6326 Current topics on Biological Activity of Natural Products 1

  

  • This course uncovers the various techniques and rationales for assess high-value bioactive natural products and study representative methods
PHRM6327 Current topics on Biological Activity of Natural Products 2

  

  • This course uncovers the various techniques and rationales for assess high-value bioactive natural products and study representative methods
PHRM6313 Separation techniques for bioactive Natural products 1

  

  • This course uncovers the separation techniques and identification of naturally-occurring bioactive materials. The courses includes: 1) pre-screening of candidate plant or molecules, 2) Activity-guided fractionation and separation skills, 3) animal cell culture system as a model assay tools, 4) plant cell culture for alternative resources of secondary metabolites.
PHRM6328 Separation techniques for bioactive Natural products 2

  

  • This course uncovers the separation techniques and identification of naturally-occurring bioactive materials. Target molecules are classified as follows: 1) oncogenic materials and Tumor suppressors, 2) antiinflammatory compounds, 3) contraceptives, 4) antibiotics, 5) prostaglandins, 6) phytoalexins, pheromones and phytohormones, 7) technical aspects of elucidating target molecules
PHRM6329 Worldwide Natural Resources

  

  • This course uncovers the diversity of natural products widely used worldwide. Natural products considered as a valuable resources to develop a new drug in biomedical society including Korea.
PHRM6330 Researches for Bioactive Natural Resources 1

  

  • Advanced techniques to isolate, identify natural products currently and representative examples to adopt the techniques.
PHRM6331 Researches for Bioactive Natural Resources 2

  

  • Advanced techniques to isolate, identify natural products currently and representative examples to adopt the techniques.
PHRM6314 Advanced pharmaceutical analysis 1

  

  • This course will cover the principles, methods, and applications of various analytical techniques for drug analysis. This course includes analytical method development, approaches, and validation which are applicable to various fields of pharmaceutical sciences.
PHRM642 Advanced Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Chemistry 2

  

  • In this lecture, we will study on the advanced organic reactions that have been utilized in synthesis of various drug-synthesis. By understanding the synthetic methods through this lecture, it could be applied them to development of the new drug-synthesis.
PHRM643 Total Synthesis of Natural Products

  

  • Natural products have been important target molecules in organic chemistry. Understanding of synthesis of natural products should be helpful to understand and develop the synthesis of new natural products that would be a very potential in new natural product drug. In this lecture, we will focus on the understanding of the previous synthesis of natural product by investigating and discussing papers on them.
PHRM644 Synthesis of Pharmaceutical Natural Product Drugs

  

  • Natural products are medicinally important active ingredients, or organic compounds, and a source of new drug-discovery especially. Understanding of synthesis of natural product drug should be helpful to develop the new synthetic drug discovery. In this lecture, we will focus on the understanding of the previous synthesis of natural product drug by investigating and discussing papers on them.
PHRM645 Discovery and Development of Synthetic New Drug

  

  • Organic synthesis of new drug entity is challenged by the creation of novel, biologically active, safe and suitably targeted molecules and the improvement of lead compounds, as well as by the need to scale up compound quantities for safety and clinical studies. In this lecture, we will focus on the understanding of synthetic strategies on the complex molecules and planning of new synthetic route to biologically important molecules by studying previous related articles.
PHRM646 Stereochemistry in Organic Chemistry

  

  • In this lecture, we will study the stereochemistry in organic chemistry including methods for preparation of optically pure organic molecules and determining of the result of stereochemical reactions and apply to the stereoselective synthesis of new chiral molecules by understanding of stereoselective reactions.
PHRM647 Advanced medicinal Chemistry 1

  

  • We will study on the process of new drug discovery, their in vivo/in vitro activities, and their intracellular mode of action to optimize new drug candidates.
PHRM648 Advanced medicinal Chemistry 2

  

  • We will study on the process of new drug discovery, their in vivo/in vitro activities, and their intracellular mode of action to optimize new drug candidates.
PHRM649 Advanced Pharmaceutical Chemistry

  

  • In this lecture, we will study on the recent research results on the synthesis of bilogical active products and hot topics in pharmaceutical chemistry by lecture and presentation.
PHRM6410 Structure-Activity Relationship

  

  • The structure–activity relationship (SAR) is the relationship between the chemical or 3D structure of a molecule and its biological activity. The analysis of SAR enables the determination of the chemical groups responsible for evoking a target biological effect in the organism. This allows modification of the effect or the potency of a bioactive compound (typically a drug) by changing its chemical structure. In this lecture, we will focus the understanding of SAR and design the optimal structure of biological active small molecules leading to design new drug candidates.
PHRM6411 Bioorganic Chemistry 1

  

  • Bioorganic chemistry is a rapidly growing scientific discipline that combines organic chemistry and biochemistry. While biochemistry aims at understanding biological processes using chemistry, bioorganic chemistry attempts to expand organic-chemical researches toward biology. In this lecture, we will study intracellular reaction between chemical molecules and their binding-enzymes to understand the design of new drug.
PHRM6412 Bioorganic Chemistry 2

  

  • Bioorganic chemistry is a rapidly growing scientific discipline that combines organic chemistry and biochemistry. While biochemistry aims at understanding biological processes using chemistry, bioorganic chemistry attempts to expand organic-chemical researches toward biology. In this lecture, we will study intracellular reaction between chemical molecules and their binding-enzymes to understand the design of new drug.
PHRM6413 Advanced Chemical Biology 1

  

  • With the advent of combinatorial chemistry and other synthetic technologies, it is feasible to prepare large collections of synthetic organic molecules. These libraries are useful in providing molecules that can be used to probe relevant biological pathways. Therefore, in this lecture, we will study on the identifying modulators of biological processes.
PHRM6414 Advanced Chemical Biology 2

  

  • With the advent of combinatorial chemistry and other synthetic technologies, it is feasible to prepare large collections of synthetic organic molecules. These libraries are useful in providing molecules that can be used to probe relevant biological pathways. Therefore, in this lecture, we will study on the identifying modulators of biological processes to utilize the development of new drug discovery.
PHRM6511 Preventive Nutrition

  

  • This lecture provides the graduate students with core knowledge of preventive nutrition and recent informations on up-to-date researches indicating that the risk of the major life style diseases affecting aged adults can be prevented or at least delayed, with nutritional approaches.
PHRM6512 Biomarkers of Environmental Diseases

  

  • Molecular biomarkers have long been recogniged as invaluable tools for identifing and preventing human disease. The potential of molecular biomarkers is especially high in relation to preventing environmental disease. This lecture reviews characteristics of useful biomarkers, criteria that can be used during biomarker development, and mechanisms promoting progress in biomarker research.
PHRM6513 Pollutants and High-Risk-Groups

  

  • The intention of this lecture is to make the students aware the effects of pollutants on the hypersusceptible population of the pollution so that more informed decisions can be made in the fields of environmental and occupational health. For this purpose this lecture reviews various biological factors in detail, which predispose individuals to toxic effects of pollutants.
PHRM6514 Topics in chemoprevention

  

  • This lecture provides graduate students with important knowledge on background, rationale, and selection of chemoprevention agents as well as design, implementation and evaluation of chemoprevention studies. This lecture also offer the students up to date information of chemoprevention through comprehensive and critical review of current literatures.
PHRM6515 Nutrition and Chemical Toxicity

  

  • This lecture provides graduate students with the systematic knowledge on effects of nutritional status on chemicals toxicities including chemical carcinogenesis and all stsudents will be exposed to gain up-to-date informations through comprehensive and critical review of current literatures.
PHRM6516 Pharmaceutical Molecular Genetics

  

  • In this lecture graduate students will gain an understanding of the principles, terminology and techniques of molecular genetics important for the aspects of biopharmaceutical and preventive pharmacal research. Students will acquire fundamental skills that are necessary for reading current literature, critical analysis and for use in their own research.
PHRM6517 Noxious Biological Reaction and Cell Signaling

  

  • This lecture provides graduate students with systematic knowledge about signal transduction pathways related to cell growth, proliferation, death and survival to understand the mechanisms of tumorigenesis and other toxic biological reactions. This lecture also reviews recent efforts of prevention of environmental cancers and anticancer drug development targeting signal transduction pathway.
PHRM6518 Cancer Metabolism

  

  • This lecture provides graduate students with systematic knowledge about the emerging cancer metabolism field to understand the interaction between metabolism and tumorigenesis and recent efforts of anti-cancer drug development targeting cancer metabolism and their application to the prevention of environmental cancers.
PHRM6519 Topics in Food and Drug Interaction

  

  • Not all medicines but many medicines can be affected by what you eat and when you eat it. Food and drug interaction may produce unexpected results or cause other health problems. This lecture provides graduate students with the knowledge about core knowledges on food and drug interactions and students gain up-to-date informations through comprehensive review of current literatures.
PHRM6520 Environmental Epidemiology

  

  • This lecture is designed to provide the graduate students majored in preventive pharmacy with core knowledge and skills in environmental epidemiology, and to prepare students to put epidemiologic concepts and methods into public health practice, including research studies in public health and the interpretation of scientific evidence relevant to public health.
PHRM6522 Advanced Pharmacotherapy – Cardiovascular Disorders

  

  • “Advanced pharmacotherapy – Cardiovascular disorders” will focus on the use of drug therapy to treat patients with cardiovascular disorders. This course will focus on the pharmaceutical care and the practical implementation of knowledge. This course addresses the issues related to the pharmacotherapy used in treating cardiovascular disorders and syndromes, including a review of pharmacotherapy, therapeutic goals, treatment plans, patient counseling and monitoring patient outcomes. Students will discuss and apply in the practice how to assist other caregivers in the development of a rational plan of drug therapy for a patient, and to evaluate existing plans of therapy and suggest alternative therapeutic treatments.
PHRM6523 Advanced Pharmacotherapy – Respiratory Disorders

  

  • “Advanced pharmacotherapy – Respiratory disorders” will focus on the use of drug therapy to treat patients with respiratory disorders. This course will focus on the pharmaceutical care and the practical implementation of knowledge. This course addresses the issues related to the pharmacotherapy used in treating respiratory disorders and syndromes, including a review of pharmacotherapy, therapeutic goals, treatment plans, patient counseling and monitoring patient outcomes. Students will discuss and apply in the practice how to assist other caregivers in the development of a rational plan of drug therapy for a patient, and to evaluate existing plans of therapy and suggest alternative therapeutic treatments.
PHRM6524 Advanced Pharmacotherapy – Renal Disorders

  

  • “Advanced pharmacotherapy – Renal disorders” will focus on the use of drug therapy to treat patients with renal disorders. This course will focus on the pharmaceutical care and the practical implementation of knowledge. This course addresses the issues related to the pharmacotherapy used in treating renal disorders and syndromes, including a review of pharmacotherapy, therapeutic goals, treatment plans, patient counseling and monitoring patient outcomes. Students will discuss and apply in the practice how to assist other caregivers in the development of a rational plan of drug therapy for a patient, and to evaluate existing plans of therapy and suggest alternative therapeutic treatments.
PHRM6525 Advanced Pharmacotherapy – Endocrinologic Disorders

  

  • “Advanced pharmacotherapy – Endocrinologic disorders” will focus on the use of drug therapy to treat patients with endocrinologic disorders. This course will focus on the pharmaceutical care and the practical implementation of knowledge. This course addresses the issues related to the pharmacotherapy used in treating endocrinologic disorders and syndromes, including a review of pharmacotherapy, therapeutic goals, treatment plans, patient counseling and monitoring patient outcomes. Students will discuss and apply in the practice how to assist other caregivers in the development of a rational plan of drug therapy for a patient, and to evaluate existing plans of therapy and suggest alternative therapeutic treatments.
PHRM6526 Advanced Pharmacotherapy – Infectious Diseases

  

  • “Advanced pharmacotherapy – Infectious Diseases” will focus on the use of drug therapy to treat patients with infectious diseases. This course will focus on the pharmaceutical care and the practical implementation of knowledge. This course addresses the issues related to the pharmacotherapy used in treating infectious diseases, including a review of pharmacotherapy, therapeutic goals, treatment plans, patient counseling and monitoring patient outcomes. Students will discuss and apply in the practice how to assist other caregivers in the development of a rational plan of drug therapy for a patient, and to evaluate existing plans of therapy and suggest alternative therapeutic treatments.
PHRM6527 Advanced Pharmacotherapy – Oncologic Disorders

  

  • “Advanced pharmacotherapy – Oncologic disorders” will focus on the use of drug therapy to treat patients with oncologic disorders. This course will focus on the pharmaceutical care and the practical implementation of knowledge. This course addresses the issues related to the pharmacotherapy used in treating oncologic disorders and syndromes, including a review of pharmacotherapy, therapeutic goals, treatment plans, patient counseling and monitoring patient outcomes. Students will discuss and apply in the practice how to assist other caregivers in the development of a rational plan of drug therapy for a patient, and to evaluate existing plans of therapy and suggest alternative therapeutic treatments.
PHRM6528 Advanced Pharmacotherapy – Psychiatric Disorders

  

  • “Advanced pharmacotherapy – Psychiatric disorders” will focus on the use of drug therapy to treat patients with psychiatric disorders. This course will focus on the pharmaceutical care and the practical implementation of knowledge. This course addresses the issues related to the pharmacotherapy used in treating psychiatric disorders and syndromes, including a review of pharmacotherapy, therapeutic goals, treatment plans, patient counseling and monitoring patient outcomes. Students will discuss and apply in the practice how to assist other caregivers in the development of a rational plan of drug therapy for a patient, and to evaluate existing plans of therapy and suggest alternative therapeutic treatments.
PHRM6529 Advanced Pharmacotherapy – Neurologic Disorders

  

  • “Advanced pharmacotherapy – Neurologic disorders” will focus on the use of drug therapy to treat patients with neurologic disorders. This course will focus on the pharmaceutical care and the practical implementation of knowledge. This course addresses the issues related to the pharmacotherapy used in treating neurologic disorders and syndromes, including a review of pharmacotherapy, therapeutic goals, treatment plans, patient counseling and monitoring patient outcomes. Students will discuss and apply in the practice how to assist other caregivers in the development of a rational plan of drug therapy for a patient, and to evaluate existing plans of therapy and suggest alternative therapeutic treatments.
PHRM6530 Advanced Pharmacotherapy – Arthritic Disorders

  

  • “Advanced pharmacotherapy – Arthritic disorders” will focus on the use of drug therapy to treat patients with arthritic disorders. This course will focus on the pharmaceutical care and the practical implementation of knowledge. This course addresses the issues related to the pharmacotherapy used in treating arthritic disorders and syndromes, including a review of pharmacotherapy, therapeutic goals, treatment plans, patient counseling and monitoring patient outcomes. Students will discuss and apply in the practice how to assist other caregivers in the development of a rational plan of drug therapy for a patient, and to evaluate existing plans of therapy and suggest alternative therapeutic treatments.
PHRM6531 Advanced Pharmacotherapy – Critical Care

  

  • “Advanced pharmacotherapy – Critical care” will focus on the use of drug therapy to treat patients in critical care. This course will focus on the pharmaceutical care and the practical implementation of knowledge. This course addresses the issues related to the pharmacotherapy used in critical care, including a review of pharmacotherapy, therapeutic goals, treatment plans, and monitoring patient outcomes. Students will discuss and apply in the practice how to assist other caregivers in the development of a rational plan of drug therapy for a patient, and to evaluate existing plans of therapy.
PHRM6532 Advanced Pharmacotherapy – Solid Organ Transplantation

  

  • “Advanced pharmacotherapy – Solid organ transplantation” will focus on the use of drug therapy to treat patients with organ transplantation. This course will focus on the pharmaceutical care and the practical implementation of knowledge. This course addresses the issues related to the pharmacotherapy used in organ transplantation, including a review of pharmacotherapy, therapeutic goals, treatment plans, patient counseling and monitoring patient outcomes. Students will discuss and apply in the practice how to assist other caregivers in the development of a rational plan of drug therapy for a patient, and to evaluate existing plans of therapy and suggest alternative therapeutic treatments.
PHRM6533 Advanced Pharmacotherapy – Pediatrics

  

  • “Advanced pharmacotherapy – Pediatrics” will focus on the use of drug therapy to treat pediatric patients. This course will focus on the pharmaceutical care and the practical implementation of knowledge. This course addresses the issues related to the pharmacotherapy used in treating pediatrics, including a review of pharmacotherapy, therapeutic goals, treatment plans, patient counseling and monitoring patient outcomes. Students will discuss and apply in the practice how to assist other caregivers in the development of a rational plan of drug therapy for a patient, and to evaluate existing plans of therapy and suggest alternative therapeutic treatments.
PHRM6534 Advanced Pharmacotherapy – Geriatrics

  

  • “Advanced pharmacotherapy – Geriatrics” will focus on the use of drug therapy to treat elderly patients. This course will focus on the pharmaceutical care and the practical implementation of knowledge. This course addresses the issues related to the pharmacotherapy used in geriatrics, including a review of pharmacotherapy, therapeutic goals, treatment plans, patient counseling and monitoring patient outcomes. Students will discuss and apply in the practice how to assist other caregivers in the development of a rational plan of drug therapy for a patient, and to evaluate existing plans of therapy and suggest alternative therapeutic treatments.
PHRM6535 Clinical Nutrition

  

  • Clinical nutrition will focus on the use of drug therapy to treat patients with nutritional disorders. This course will focus on the pharmaceutical care and the practical implementation of knowledge. This course addresses the issues related to the pharmacotherapy used in treating nutritional disorders and syndromes, including a review of pharmacotherapy, therapeutic goals, treatment plans, patient counseling and monitoring patient outcomes. Students will discuss and apply in the practice how to assist other caregivers in the development of a rational plan of drug therapy for a patient, and to evaluate existing plans of therapy and suggest alternative therapeutic treatments.
PHRM6536 Medication Use Evaluation

  

  • This course will provides information on the concept of medication use evaluation (MUE), a quality assurance method that has been shown to be effective in identifying medicine use problems. Students will discuss the process for implementing and performing a broad-based, ongoing, and systematic MUE in order to improve medication use.
PHRM6537 Advanced Drug Information

  

  • The goal of this course is preparation of the students as an effective drug information contributor to provide an integral component of pharmaceutical care, which seeks to improve the effective, safe, and cost-effective use of medications.
PHRM664 New Drug Discovery & Pharmacogenomics

  

  • The course enables students to have working knowledge on the application of pharmacogenomics and toxicogenomics in new drug discovery. Topics include: drug discovery in post-human genome projects era; pharmacogenomics and toxicogenomics in drug discovery; regulations in US FDA regarding to pharmacogenomics; biomarker development in drug discovery
PHRM665 Pharmaceutical Bioinformatics

  

  • The course covers practical aspects of bioinformatics in pharmaceutical industry. The course enables to graduate students to have working knowledge on exploiting public microarray databases like Gene Expression Omnibus in National Center for Biotechnology Information to perform data-mining for new drug discovery. This course will provide a case study opportunity to each student to analyze clinical databases which will be applied to find new drug targets.
PHRM666 Tissue engineering for new drug discovery

  

  • The course enables to graduate students to have working knowledge on application of tissue engineering in drug development in pharmaceutical industry. This course will focus on liver tissue engineering. Students will have opportunities to learn application of hepatocyte stem cells and biomaterials on liver tissue engineering and also to study the importance of cell mechanics and biocompatible devices in tissue engineering
PHRM667 Advanced Alternative Safety Test Methods

  

  • This course will cover knowledge on alternative safety test methods for skin irritation, skin sensitization, and photosensitivity, etc. The course enables to graduate students to have working knowledge on the development of new alternative safety testing methods for cosmeceutical omics based on skin toxicology.
PHRM668 Drug Discovery for Metabolic Diseases

  

  • This course will cover recent trends in the development of the first-in-class anti-diabetic drugs and anti-obesity drugs. The course enables to graduate students to have working knowledge on development of novel drugs to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity.
PHRM669 Advanced Anti-inflammatory Drugs

  

  • This course will cover the recent trends in anti-inflammatory drug discovery. The course enables to graduate students to have working knowledge on the relationship between inflammation and type II diabetes, and between inflammation and cancer.
PHRM662 Biophysical Pharmacy

  

  • Understand the physicochemical properties of drug and study of biotechnology-related properties of physical pharmacy
PHRM6611 Structural Determination of Biomolecules

  

  • Understand the fundermental principles and methods for the determination of structure of biomolecules (protein, peptide) using NMR and X-ray crystallography.
PHRM6612 Advanced Structure-Based Drug Discovery

  

  • Understand the Structure-based drug discovery (SBDD) : process, theoretical background, techniques, examples of drug discovery, etc.
PHRM6613 Techniques in Physical Pharmacy

  

  • Understand the current researches of physical pharmacy. Graduate students will present and discuss about research papers related to their researches.
PHRM6614 Preformulation

  

  • Understand and utilize various physicochemical properties of drugs for drug development.
PHRM6615 Sciences of Pharmaceutical Excipients

  

  • Understand and utilize the principles of pharmaceutical excipients and the usage in drug development.
PHRM6616 Polymer Science in Pharmacy

  

  • Understand the basic principles, manufacturing process, physicochemical properties of various polymers to apply for drug development.
PHRM6617 Advanced Pharmaceutics

  

  • Understand and utilize the properties of various formulations and drug delivery systems.
PHRM6618 Advanced Biopharmaceutics

  

  • Study the release mechanisms, bioavailability, equivalency of the formulation and understand physicochemical properties of drugs which is essential for drug development and evaluation.
PHRM6619 Chronopharmaceutics

  

  • Understand and utilize the change of pharmacological efficacy and pharmacokinetics of drugs by administration time or biorhythm in drug development.
PHRM6620 Drug Targeting

  

  • Study various formulations and drug delivery systems to effectively target drugs in order to maximize efficacy of drugs while minimizing the side effects.
PHRM6622 Nanopharmaceutics

  

  • Study the nano-technology and behavior of nanoparticles in human body to utilize nano-technology for pharmaceutical applications.
PHRM6623 Drug Transporter

  

  • Study the principles of membrane transport, p-Glycoprotein efflux/transprters, and drug delivery system
PHRM6624 Coating Technology

  

  • Understand the film technology used for various drug development especially about the film materials, film formation, and the principles of coating technology used for advanced drug delivery