CHEM 195 - Topics in Chemistry and/or Biochemistry

FDR: SC
Credits: 3

Chem 195 is intended to bring to the University Community subjects that are suited for students’ understanding of science issues and topics that will make them informed citizens. The specific topic will depend on the expertise of the instructor and/or issues of particular pressing interest.

Spring 2022, CHEM 195-01: Topics in Chemistry and/or Biochemistry: Biochemistry in Medicine: How Science is Changing Lives (3). This course will touch on recent advances and innovations that are based in biochemistry, but have important medical applications, such as mRNA vaccines, cancer sequencing, xenotransplants, gene therapy for muscular dystrophy, CRISPR gene editing, and antibody therapies, including a recent failed Alzheimer’s trial. We will discuss the pathway from research to clinical trials, the ethics of research in human subjects, and how these technologies work. (SC) J. Friend.