Course Offerings

Downstream Processing - Biopharmaceutical processes are used in upstream processing to create materials that can be purified in downstream processes to produce the desired drug product, including antibiotics, hormones, amino acids, or therapeutic proteins. In this course, students will be able to learn the fundamentals of downstream processes that are essential to the purification of these products, including separation techniques. Basics of chromatography and multiple filtration processes will be discussed. The lab sections will allow the students hands-on experience with a small-scale tangential flow filtration and filter integrity testing.

Upstream Processing - is the initial phase of the bioprocess from cell line development and cultivation to culture expansion of the cells through harvesting. Mammalian cell culture is an important tool for research, clinical, and pharmaceutical applications. In this course, students will learn techniques such as initiating and subculturing a cell culture. Students will also have hands on experience performing cell counts, extracting media samples from a bioreactor and analyzing cell samples using a bio-analyzer to determine the growth rate of the cells.