Postgraduate Course: Regenerative Medicine and Industry (GMED11110)

Course Outline
School	Deanery of Clinical Sciences	College	College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	This course describes how applications of stem cells in medicine can be translated to the industrial setting.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, 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.
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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