Curriculum for Pharmaceutical Design and Engineering
Programme provision
The 2-year program adds up to 120 ECTS points. To obtain the MSc degree in Pharmaceutical Design and Engineering the student must fulfill 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:
| 42502 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | January |
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| 42505 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | August |
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| 42503 | Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams | 5 | point | June |
Programme specific courses (50 ECTS)
Innovation course II - choose 5 ECTS among the following courses:
| 22179 | Module 3: Value creation in pharma- and biotechnology | 5 | point | January and June |
Core competence courses - mandatory (25 ECTS)
| 22231 | Module 1: From idea to project plan in biotech and pharmaceutical research | 5 | point | Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12) and Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) |
| 22238 | Module 2: Pilot project in Pharmaceutical Design and Engineering | 5 | point | Autumn and Spring |
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| 22239 | Module 2: Pilot project in Pharmaceutical Design and Engineering (3 weeks) | 5 | point | January, June, July, August |
| 26436 | Pharmaceutical Drug Development | 10 | point | Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
| 28850 | Pharmaceutical Process Development | 5 | point | Spring F5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 22235 | Drug delivery | 5 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 27101 | Assay Technology | 5 | point | June |
| 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.
Choose 5 ECTS among the following programme specific courses:
| 22117 | Protein structure and computational biology | 5 | point | Spring F5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 22125 | Algorithms in bioinformatics | 5 | point | June |
| 22126 | Next-Generation-Sequencing Analysis | 5 | point | January |
| 22161 | Introduction to programming in Life Science using Python, MSc | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 22201 | Immune System, Anatomy & Development | 5 | point | Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 22202 | Molecular diagnostics and precision medicine | 5 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 22210 | Immune System in Health and Disease | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 22230 | Development and production of vaccines | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 26426 | Introduction to Medicinal Chemistry | 5 | point | Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 26433 | Organic Chemistry 3 | 5 | point | Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 26438 | NMR Spectroscopy | 5 | point | Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 28233 | Recovery and purification of biological products | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
Choose 5 ECTS among the following programme specific courses:
| 22112 | High Performance Computing in Life Science | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 22145 | Immunological Bioinformatics | 5 | point | Autumn E5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 22210 | Immune System in Health and Disease | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 22236 | Immunotherapy | 5 | point | Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 22237 | Preclinical drug development | 5 | point | Autumn E5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 22284 | Living models of body barriers and organs | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 22508 | Practical NMR spectroscopy: Making reactions in (bio)chemistry visible | 5 | point | June |
| 22603 | Light microscopy for life science | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 23205 | Fighting infectious diseases | 5 | point | Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 26125 | Chromatographic (HPLC) Purification of Biological Macromolecules | 5 | point | June |
| 26422 | Biomolecular Chemistry | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 26446 | Advanced Medicinal Chemistry | 5 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) |
N.B. The programme specific courses must add up in total to 50 ECTS points.
Elective Courses
Any course classified as an MSc course in DTU's course base may be an elective course. This includes programme-specific courses above the minimal requirements. Master students may choose as many as 10 ECTS 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
Line Hagner Nielsen Group leader, Associate Professor Phone: +45 45255751 lihan@dtu.dk