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 methods to assess sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | F7 (Tues 18-22) |
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| 12106 | Quantitative methods to assess sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) |
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| 12105 | Quantitative methods to assess sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) | 5 | point | E7 (Tues 18-22) |
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| 12101 | Quantitative methods to assess 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:
| 27436 | Innovations in biopharmaceutical drug development | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) |
Core competence courses - mandatory (20 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) |
| 22235 | Drug delivery | 5 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 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 |
| 28850 | Pharmaceutical Process Development | 5 | point | Spring F5A (Wed 8-12) |
Choose 25 ECTS among the following programme specific courses:
| 02452 | Machine Learning | 5 | point | Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 22112 | High Performance Computing in Life Science | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 22117 | Protein structure and computational biology | 5 | point | Spring F5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 22166 | Python programming in Life Science, Msc | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 22201 | Immune System, Anatomy & Development | 5 | point | Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 22203 | Conceive, Design, Implement, and Operate a Healthcare Product | 10 | point | Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) and January |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 26241 | Applied Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 26325 | Chromatographic (HPLC) Purification of Biological Macromolecules | 5 | point | June |
| 26422 | Biomolecular Chemistry | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 27101 | Assay Technology | 5 | point | June |
| 28233 | Recovery and purification of biological products | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 28855 | Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and quality in pharmaceutical, biotech and food industry - Theoretical version | 5 | point | Spring F1B (Thurs 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