(Elective / Teaching hours per week: 4 / /Assessment: final exam at the end of each term or September/ Credits: 4)
Prof. Ioanna Chinou (ichinou@pharm.uoa.gr)
Assist. Prof. Nikolas Fokialakis (fokialakis@pharm.uoa.gr )
• Introduction in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
• Biotechnology and bioethics (international treaties and agreements)
• Biotechnology of microorganisms (principles of genetic engineering, bioreactors, etc)
• Biotechnology in plants ( genes’ manipulation, Agrobacteriumas elicitor, transgenic plants, tissue cultures and cell cultures)
• Cultures of animal cells (Basic principles)
• Cloning genes in bacteria and eukaryotic cells
• Applications of biotechnology in pharmaceutical sciences (aminoacids, enzymes, secondary metabolites, vaccines, monoclonal antibodies etc)
• Introduction to genomics and other “-omics” sciences
• Gene therapy and epigenetic therapy
• Personalized medicine