For more details on the courses, please refer to the Course Catalog
| Code | Course Title | Credit | Learning Time | Division | Degree | Grade | Note | Language | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BTH5091 | Principles of Immunology | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | Biopharmaceutical Convergence | - | No | |
| The primary goal of this lecture is to let students understand the basic principles of immunology and their implications in diverse immunological diseases such as infections, cancers and autoimmune diseases. The class will cover the diverse topics in immunology- the general principles of immune responses, the components of immune systems (innate and adaptive immunity) and their functions, host defense mechanisms, pathogenic conditions and pathogen/cancer cell-immune evasion mechanisms, and implications based on immune regulation. The class will run by a series of lectures based on a textbook but also utilize a various forms of resources such as youtube animation and research articles, and presentations and discussion given by students. | |||||||||
| BTH5092 | Advanced Organic Chemistry | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | Biopharmaceutical Convergence | Korean | Yes | |
| Organic Chemistry serves as a key tool for drug discovery and offers essential knowledge to understand life science. “Advanced Organic Chemistry” includes understanding modern organic reactions and application thereof for real organic synthesis of importance compounds. The details includes understanding various organic reactions, functional group interconversions, C-C bond formation reaction, and catalytic reactions. | |||||||||
| BTH5093 | Biomolecular Chemistry | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | Biopharmaceutical Convergence | - | No | |
| Biomolecules such as peptide, proteins, and nucleic acids are critical components in cells, and therefore, serve as targets for drug discovery. Hence, understanding biomolecules is essential to perform drug discovery research as well as understanding life science. The lecture consists of 1) understanding physical and chemical property of biomolecules; 2) chemical reactivity of biomolecules; 3) structural property of biomolecules; 4) biomolecular interactions, etc. The students will learn the basis of biomolecules, how to modify biomolecules, how to target biomolecules, etc. | |||||||||
| BTH5094 | Therapeutic antibody | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | Biopharmaceutical Convergence | - | No | |
| Antibody shows therapeutic activity through immune reaction, a natural phenomena. Therapeutic antibody represents biotherapeutics and leads biotherapeutic market. Hence, understanding therapeutic antibody is essential for understanding biotherapeutics. The class includes basic immunology essential to understand antibody, how to develop antibody, antibody surrogates, and the antigens for therapeutic antibodies. How to develop antibody will be the main contents, for example, phage display, animal-based antibody discovery, antibody optimization, strategy for therapeutic antibody discovery, etc. At last, examples of real therapeutic antibody discovery will be introduced. | |||||||||
| BTH5095 | Advanced Chemical Biology 1 | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-8 | Biopharmaceutical Convergence | - | No |
| Advanced Chemical Biology 1 focuses on small molecules, peptides, nucleic acids which identify and regulate the molecular mechanism of life, and introduces a trend in their technology development and application examples to offer basic concept of drug discovery. Representative technologies in this field include 1. DNA-encoded library; 2. Peptide library; 3. Nucleic acids; 4. Protein degraders etc. The lecture consists of introduction of each technology and the corresponding application for drug discovery and biological phenomena. | |||||||||
| BTH5096 | Advanced Chemical Biology 2 | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-8 | Biopharmaceutical Convergence | - | No |
| Advanced Chemical Bology 2 focuses on biomacromolecules (or biologics) such as 1. Monoclonal antibody; 2. Bispecific antibody; 3. Nanobody; 4. Affibody. The lecture includes how to develop the corresponding biologics and how to apply them for drug discovery and disease diagnosis. Representative technologies to develop biologics include phage display and molecular evolutions. The students will learn the technology for biotherapeutics developments. | |||||||||
| BTH5097 | Tissue Engineering for Drug Discovery | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | Biopharmaceutical Convergence | English | Yes | |
| Tissue Engineering is a next-generation biotechnology to create human tissue surrogates in vitro by applying the development and regeneration process of the human body. Tissue Engineering is a promising platform for developing new drugs and it holds a great potential to serve as next-generation biopharmaceuticals for regenerative medicines. In this course, basic concepts/principles of tissue engineering and state-of-the-art tissue engineering strategies such as organoid/3D bioprinting will be covered. In addition, through case studies, tissue engineering techniques currently applied to the pharmaceutical industry will be covered. The goals of this course are as follows: 1) Understanding of tissue engineering principles and state-of-the-art tissue engineering technology, 2) Improving reading comprehension skills of original research articles, and 3) Setting biomedical research problems in real life and proposing problem solving methods using tissue engineering principles. | |||||||||
| COV7001 | Academic Writing and Research Ethics 1 | 1 | 2 | Major | Master/Doctor | SKKU Institute for Convergence | Korean | Yes | |
| 1) Learn the basic structure of academic paper writing, and obtain the ability to compose academic paper writing. 2) Learn the skills to express scientific data in English and to be able to sumit research paper in the international journals. 3) Learn research ethics in conducting science and writing academic papers. | |||||||||
| CRD5016 | Principles of Research Protocol and Grant Proposal | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-8 | Clinical Research Design and Evaluation | Korean | Yes |
| This course aim to teach how to write clinical research proposal and study protocol. The course will cover how to prepare proposal for national grant, and how to write study protocol. | |||||||||
| CRD5017 | Systematic Reviews for Evidence-based Medicine | 1 | 2 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-8 | Clinical Research Design and Evaluation | Korean | Yes |
| This course will teach student how to use systematic methods to collect secondary data, critically appraise research studies, and synthesize findings qualitatively or quantitatively. Systematic reviews formulate research questions that are broad or narrow in scope, and identify and synthesize studies that directly relate to the systematic review question. They are designed to provide a complete, exhaustive summary of current evidence relevant to a research question. | |||||||||
| CRD5019 | Writing Clinical Research Papers | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-8 | Clinical Research Design and Evaluation | Korean | Yes |
| This course aim to teach how to write clinical research writing. The course will cover how to prepare present abstract for international conference and how to publish good papers. It also will teach how to communicate clinical research outcomes with community. | |||||||||
| CRD5027 | Basic Biostatistics for Clinical Research | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Clinical Research Design and Evaluation | Korean | Yes |
| Medical statistics is a tool that supports the validity and efficiency of clinical research. In this course, students will learn to understand the characteristics of medical data and select, analyze, and interpret appropriate statistical methods according to their research design. In addition to the theory, this course include practice using medical data to understand the concept better. | |||||||||
| CRD5028 | Advanced Biostatistics for Clinical Research | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Clinical Research Design and Evaluation | Korean | Yes |
| There are situations in medical data that do not follow basic statistical assumptions depending on the characteristics of the data and the subject of research. In this case, it is necessary to apply advanced methods to statistically prove the hypotheses of the clinical study. Therefore, this course introduces situations that deviate from the basic assumptions of basic statistics, learns the theory of which statistical method to choose in this situation, and helps students understand the concept better through practice using actual medical data. | |||||||||
| CRD5029 | Research Methods for healthcare Service and Outcome | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Clinical Research Design and Evaluation | Korean | Yes |
| To improve expertise in the development and evaluation of healthcare services, students learn about the background of healthcare service change regarding (1) the healthcare service industrial environment, (2) the policy environment, (3) the research environment, (4) the business environment. To improve a research methodology for the development and quantitative evaluation of health care services, students will learn systematic review, health care service research, and evaluation methodologies. In addition, students will learn the understanding and feasibility analysis of healthcare service cost/accounting structure and the methodology for supporting decision-making. | |||||||||
| CRD5030 | Qualitative Research Methods | 3 | 6 | Major | Master/Doctor | 1-4 | Clinical Research Design and Evaluation | Korean | Yes |
| This course provides an understanding of qualitative research, research design methods, qualitative data collection methods, and analysis procedures, and introduces phenomenology, grounded theory, and cultural technology as approaches to qualitative research. In addition, students have a practice based on theory in this class. | |||||||||