NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 慢性炎症性疾病的藥物傳遞策略(8233)
(Eng.) Drug Delivery Strategies for Chronic Inflammatory Diseases
Offering Dept Graduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Course Type Elective Credits 3 Teacher Bill Cheng
Department Graduate Institute of Biomedical EngineeringPh.D Language English Semester 2025-SPRING
Course Description The main focus of this course is to understand the challenges that biopharmaceutical companies face when developing drug delivery strategies for patients with chronic inflammatory diseases. The content of the course is relative easy, even for those that have no background in biology or medicine. (本課程歡迎對生醫產業有興趣的同學來選修, 不需要有生醫背景, 也歡迎大學部同學來選修. 雖是用英文授課, 但授課內容簡單, 可以當作練習英文機會)
Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course N
Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
Course Objectives Competency Indicators Ratio(%) Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
Understand the medical background of some chronic inflammatory diseases (e.g. cancer), and the challenges in developing the therapeutics in treating these diseases.
1.Possess professional knowledge in biomedical engineering
3.Ability to write scientific papers and communicate research results effectively.
4.Integration in interdisciplinary research and innovative research skills.
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Discussion
Lecturing
Attendance
Oral Presentation
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 Innate Immunity (I)
Week 2 Innate Immunity (II)
Week 3 Adaptive Immunity (I)
Week 4 Adaptive Immunity (II)
Week 5 Inflammation in Neurodegenerative diseases (I)
Week 6 Inflammation in Neurodegenerative diseases (II)
Week 7 Inflammatory drug targets in Neurodegenerative diseases (I)
Week 8 Inflammatory drug targets in Neurodegenerative diseases (II)
Week 9 Inflammation in Cancer (I)
Week 10 Inflammation in Cancer (II)
Week 11 Inflammatory drug targets in Cancer (I)
Week 12 Inflammatory drug targets in Cancer (II)
Week 13 Inflammation in Cardiovascular Diseases (I)
Week 14 Inflammation in Cardiovascular Diseases (II)
Week 15 Inflammatory drug targets in Cardiovascular Diseases (I)
Week 16 Inflammatory drug targets in Cardiovascular Diseases (II)
Week 17 Student Presentations
Week 18 Student Presentations
Evaluation
Attendance (50%)
Oral Presentation (50%
Textbook & other References
Hansson 2005 New England Journal of Medicine 352:1685-1695
Grivennikov et al. 2010 Cell 140: 883-899
Glass et al. 2010 Cell 140: 918-934
Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website

Office Hours
Thursday 9-10am
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