| Responsible Department | Department of Basic Animal and Veterinary Sciences
20 % Department of Agriculture and Ecology 20 % Department of Basic Science and Environment 25 % Department of Veterinary Disease Biology 10 % Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology 25 % | ||||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | MSc. 1 year | ||||||||||||||||
| Duration | One block | ||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 15 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||||
| Level of Course | MSc | ||||||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination oral examination All aids allowed Description of Examination: Final 25 min oral examination with preparation (30 min, all aids allowed), 7-point scale, internal examiner. Exam topics will cover project phases, the biological background of the project, general and specific intellectual property right issues. Weight: 100% 7-point scale, internal examiner | ||||||||||||||||
| Requirement for Attending Exam | An approved written project report, made in groups, is a prerequisite for access to the oral examination | ||||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Introductory lectures and seminars, project work in groups, patent reading classes, group presentations and report writing in groups. | ||||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Block 4 Week Structure: A Block 4 Week Structure: B | ||||||||||||||||
| Language of Instruction | English | ||||||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | 240025 240067 240039 240053 240007 230002; 240020; 240019 | ||||||||||||||||
| Course Content | |||||||||||||||||
| The course is theoretical and during the first week introductory lectures are given within the following themes: 1) Biomedicine, 2) Environmental Biotechnology, 3) Enzymes and 4) Drug Discovery. The introductory lectures are based on state of the art review articles. In the second week project groups are formed and the projects are initiated with a workshop on idea generation within the biotechnological area. Groups will be encouraged to contact relevant industrial and/or academic partners to test their ideas. The second course week is focused on generating ideas and making a vision for the project. In the third week the focus is on background litterature and patents relevant to the project. During the third week the scientific hypothesis and the aim of the project is written based on the relevant written material. In week four the focus will be on creating a project project plan and describing the project strategy in details. In week five the focus will be on commercial and scientific potential of the project and the groups are encouraged to contact relevant industrial and/or academic partners to test their project plan. Week six is devoted to entrepeneurship and incubators and the project groups will end up describing the possibilities of getting their project into real life. Week seven is for writing the project reports and week eight is for presentations of the project for a panel of experts. During weeks two to eight there will be lectures giving guidelines the group work and each week there will be knowledge sharing between groups either by presentations or other formal activities During the first seven weeks basic intellectual property right issues will be taught in parallel with the other activities and individual lectures on GLP, GMP, drug trails and laboratory animals will form a common basis for the course participants. | |||||||||||||||||
| Teaching and learning Methods | |||||||||||||||||
| Lectures, work shops, group work, discussions and presentations in relation to the project: 40 hours of lectures, 20 hours patent reading classes, 300 hours project work, 20 hours discussions and presentations, 20 hours computer exercises and 40 hours for preparation. | |||||||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||||||
| The course forms a final synthesizing element of the MSc education and it is the final preparation for the MSc projects After completion of the course the student is expected to have the following knowledge, skills and competences: Knowledge - Communicate in depth knowledge on selected topics within the area of biotechnology - Identify current technical problems within the area of biotechnology - Describe the relationship between patenting and scientific discovery - Describe the patenting process and how it relates to the international patent authorities and organizations. - Understand patents as strategic tools in business developement - Understand how intellectual property rights relates to and handles genetic sequences and other biological material Skills - Read and interpret state of the art scientific literature within the area of biotechnology - Generate new ideas to tackle technical problems within the biotechnological area - Evaluate which strategies and laboratory procedures to use to solve technical problems within the biotechnological area - Use and understand advanced methods in molecular biology in the context of research and development - Determine the freedom to operate for a given new biotechnological product emphasizing intellectual property rights. - Understand how to interact with external partners both industrial and academic. - Understand entrepreneurship in general. Competences: - Identify scientific problems within the area of biotechnology and design strategies for investigating the problems - Make a well documented project plan including a hypothesis, a time line with deliverables and expected deadlines, risk assessment and future perspectives. - Exploit knowledge of advanced technologies and products based on genetic sequences in animal, plant and microbial biotechnologies. As examples technologies could include bioremediation, development and tailoring of production organisms, gene discovery, genome analysis, marker assisted selection, rational drug design and the use of animal and cell-based models. Products could comprise food ingredients, biomedicine, small molecule pharmaceuticals and transgenic crop plants and animals. | |||||||||||||||||
| Course Literature | |||||||||||||||||
| Selected scientific papers, reviews and patent material. The litterature will change from year to year dependent on the chosen topics. | |||||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||||
| Claus Bøttcher Jørgensen, chj@life.ku.dk, Department of Basic Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Phone: 353-33064 | |||||||||||||||||
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