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Postgraduate Course: Regenerative Medicine and Industry (GMED11110)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Clinical Sciences CollegeCollege of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course describes how applications of stem cells in medicine can be translated to the industrial setting.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2014/15, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 22, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 26, Formative Assessment Hours 26, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 126 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) In course assessment (100%)
Each student will produce 3 written critiques of specified key scientific papers in the relevant subject area and will present these critiques in a moderated discussion. Each critique will be a maximum length of 2000 words.
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course the students will understand :
- The use of stem cells in modelling disease processes and how this can be applied to new drug discovery
- Stem cell derived tissues in drug development and toxicology
- How industrial processes differ from academic research, in the areas of GMP, QA and scale
- How legislation and regulatory bodies affect the production and delivery of stem cell based products

Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsStem cells, Regenerative Medicine, industry, GMP, QA, Dug discovery
Contacts
Course organiserDr Paul Travers
Tel: (0131) 242 9458
Email: paul.travers@ed.ac.uk
Course secretary
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