Schedule for Biotechnology 54000, Fall 2009:
Note: Subject to change as we finalize guest speaker dates and topics!
| 8/27/09 | |
| 9/01/09 | Biotechnology Timeline 2009 (Part I; Parts 1 & 2) |
| 9/03/09 | Biotechnology Timeline 2009 (Part II;Parts 3-5); |
| 9/08/09 | Surfing the First Wave: Recombinant DNA drugs |
| 9/10/09 | |
| 9/15/09 | Biotech's Second Wave: Monoclonal Antibody-based Drugs;
MOAs; Know your Drugs, Full Notes |
| 9/17/09 | Investing in Biotechnology; Full Notes Biotech Stock Project - Due 01 December 09 |
| 9/22/09 | |
| 9/24/09 | Biotechnology and Global Health |
| 9/29/09 | Clinical Trials: Drug Development & Approval Process; Full Notes |
| 10/01/09 | Drug Delivery: Way cool ideas for your team project! |
| 10/06/09 | Clinical Trials: Rose S. Fife, M.D., M.P.H., Director of the Indiana University National Center of Excellence in Women's Health |
| 10/08/09 | EXAM 1 (through 10/01) |
| 10/13/09 | |
| 10/15/09 | Ag Biotech II: Who's who in Ag Biotech (full notes); Team Project Update |
| 10/20/09 | Stem Cells - Merv Yoder, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, IUSM, Director, Wells Center for Pediatric Research |
| 10/22/09 | |
| 10/27/09 | 1. The Cloning of Dolly and Other Mammals (full notes); 2. hES and Adult Stem Cells (homework!) |
| 10/29/09 | |
| 11/03/09 | Gene Therapy - Ken Cornetta MD [web], Chair, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, IUSM; Director, IU Gene Vector Facility |
| 11/05/09 | Micro RNAs as Human Therapeutics - Dr. Sapna Deo & Eric Hunt; Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, IUPUI |
| 11/10/09 | Ag Biotech III: Plant Genetic Engineering Technology & C0-Evolution - Joe Petolino, Senior Scientist, Dow AgroSciences |
| 11/12/09 | Ag Biotech IV: Environmental regulation & Safety of GM crops and food; |
| 11/17/09 | Patents and Intellectual Property - Lynn Tyler, Attorney, Barnes & Thornburg, IN Gene Patents (homework!) |
| 11/19/09 | Human Genome Project I |
| 11/24/09 | Exam 2 |
| 11/26/09 | No Class - Thanksgiving Break |
| 12/01/09 | Human Genome Project II |
| 12/03/09 | Team Projects 1-5 |
| 12/08/09 | Team Projects 6-10 |
| 12/10/09 | Team Projects 11-15 |
| 12/15/09 | FINAL EXAM (Cumulative) Tuesday, 6-8 pm |
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News of the WEEK:
10/23/09: The Only Way to Earn 50% Annual Returns Read with caution...and diversify!
10/23.09: Ouch ... Biogen, Elan shares plummet on new Tysabri review European regulators said they have begun a review of the MS drug Tysabri after reports of 23 cases of a potentially deadly brain infection,..
10/08/09: Way cool (& green): Dow Unveils Solar ShinglesWhat a great idea!
10/05/09 Nobel News: Congratulations toElizabeth Blackburn (UCSF) Carol Greider (Johns Hopkins) and John Szostak (Mass General, Harvard) for their amazing work on telomeres & telomerase and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (MRC), Thomas A. Steitz (Yale) and Ada E. Yonath (Weizmann)for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome!!!
09/22/09 In case you care...Google History, 1995-presentAnd on a related note: iPod History, Oct 2001 - present
09/17/09 Great News! Rituxan tests positive in Phase III trial Lymphoma patients who received Rituxan + chemo lived longer without disease progression.
09/10/09: Good News!One Vaccine Shot Seen as Protective for Swine FluNY TIme; Clinical trials are showing that the new H1N1 swine flu vaccine protects with 1 dose instead of 2!
09/08/09: Ouch again: First Stem Cell Drug Fails 2 Late-Stage Clinical TrialOsiris Therapeutics said that Prochymal was no more effective than a placebo in treating life-threatening complications of bone marrow transplantation.
09/02/09: Ooh ouch: Pfizer Pays $2.3 Billion to Settle Marketing Case The settlement is the largest fine ever levied for fraud in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
8/27/09: Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, died Tuesday night of complications from glioblastoma, one of the deadliest cancers. He was 77.
08/25 /09: PNAS
Uh-oh!
"People who often do multiple tasks in a variety of media -- texting, instant messaging, online video watching, word processing, Web surfing, and more -- do worse on tests in which they need to switch attention from one task to another than people who rarely multitask in this way.
Heavy multitaskers are more easily distracted by irrelevant information than those who aren't constantly in a multimedia frenzy, according to the study in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."