Curriculum for Biomaterial Engineering for Medicine
Programme provision
To obtain the MSc in Biomaterial Engineering for Medicine the student has to meet the following requirements:
- Have passed Polytechnical foundation courses adding up to at least 10 ECTS
- Have passed Programme-specific courses adding up to at least 50 ECTS
- Have performed a Master Thesis of 30 ECTS points within the field of the general program
- Have passed a sufficient number of Elective courses to bring the total number of ECTS of the entire study to 120 ECTS
Curriculum
Polytechnical foundation courses (10 ECTS)
The following courses are mandatory
| 12100 | Quantitative Sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | F7 (Tues 18-22) |
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| 12106 | Quantitative Sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) |
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| 12105 | Quantitative Sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | E7 (Tues 18-22) |
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| 12101 | Quantitative Sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | Spring F3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 42500 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | January |
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| 42504 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | August |
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| 42501 | Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | June |
Students with advanced innovation competences may take one of the following courses as an alternative to 42500/42501/42504:
| 42503 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | June |
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| 42505 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | August |
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| 42502 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | January |
Programme specific courses (50 ECTS)
Innovation course II - mandatory (10 ECTS):
| 22203 | Conceive, Design, Implement, and Operate a Healthcare Product | 10 | point | Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) and January |
Core competence courses - mandatory (10 ECTS)
| 22283 | Molecular thermodynamics, transport, and analytics | 10 | point | Autumn E4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) |
Core competence courses - choose 5 ECTS among the following courses:
| 22237 | Preclinical drug development | 5 | point | Autumn E5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 26290 | Chemistry at the Nanoscale | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 26422 | Biomolecular Chemistry | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 27430 | Eukaryotic cell biology | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
The extra ECTS points in this group will automatically be a part of the overall ECTS points of the programme specific courses.
Core competence courses - choose 5 ECTS among the following courses:
| 22206 | Project in healthcare engineering, August | 5 | point | August |
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| 22207 | Project in healthcare engineering, January | 5 | point | January |
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| 22205 | Project in healthcare engineering, June | 5 | point | June |
Choose 20 ECTS from one of the following three groups of programme specific courses:
Drug delivery systems engineering courses
Note: Students who lack basic immunology are remommented to take 27070 as elective.
| 22210 | Immune System in Health and Disease | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 22235 | Drug delivery | 5 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 22236 | Immunotherapy | 5 | point | Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 22284 | Living models of body barriers and organs | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 22603 | Light microscopy for life science | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 26436 | Pharmaceutical Drug Development | 10 | point | Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
| 28855 | Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and quality in pharmaceutical, biotech and food industry - Theoretical version | 5 | point | Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17) |
Healthcare Materials Engineering courses
| 22281 | Biomaterials | 5 | point | Spring F3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 22284 | Living models of body barriers and organs | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 22603 | Light microscopy for life science | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 27510 | Biosensors and bioanalysis | 5 | point | Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 27665 | LabChip: Design of Lab-on-a-chip systems | 5 | point | Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 28212 | Polymer Chemistry | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 28855 | Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and quality in pharmaceutical, biotech and food industry - Theoretical version | 5 | point | Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17) |
Diagnostics Technology Engineering courses
| 22202 | Molecular diagnostics and precision medicine | 5 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 22235 | Drug delivery | 5 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 22603 | Light microscopy for life science | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 27101 | Assay Technology | 5 | point | June |
| 27510 | Biosensors and bioanalysis | 5 | point | Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 27665 | LabChip: Design of Lab-on-a-chip systems | 5 | point | Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 34430 | Introduction to biophotonics | 5 | point | Spring F5A (Wed 8-12) |
Cell therapy
| 22201 | Immune System, Anatomy & Development | 5 | point | Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 22210 | Immune System in Health and Disease | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 22235 | Drug delivery | 5 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 22236 | Immunotherapy | 5 | point | Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 22284 | Living models of body barriers and organs | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 27470 | Mammalian cell technology for manufacturing of biologics | 5 | point | Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
Elective courses
Any course classified as MSc course in DTU's course base may be an elective course. This includes programme specific courses in excess of the minimal requirements. Master students may choose as much as 10 credit points among the bachelor courses at DTU and courses at an equivalent level from other higher institutions. In addition, it is possible to take MSc-level courses at other Danish universities or abroad.
Head of Studies
Hans Martin Dufva Groupleader, Associate Professor Mobile: 5133 3753 dufva@dtu.dk