Course Med BT
Course Med BT
Course Med BT
(2 Credits, 1L, 1 T)
Unit 1
15 L
1.
Introduction to nanotechnology, History and scope, interdisciplinary
nature
2.
Nano medicine
3.
Drug delivery, protein and peptide delivery, Applications in cancer
biology
4.
Site Specific Delivery of Chemotherapeutic Agents Using
Nanoparticles, Increasing Bioavailability of a Compound , Active
Targeting, Magnetically Directed Targeting to Tumor Tissue , Ligand
Directed Active Targeting,
Targeted Drug Delivery Using Magnetic Nanoparticles, Controlled
Delivery of Chemotherapeutic Drugs Using Nanoparticles, antiAIDS
drugs, General medicine to personalized medicine,
5.
Nanomaterials characterization
Electron microscopy SEM, TEM, EDAX, Xray diffraction atomic force
microscopy, confocal microscopy, UVVisible spectroscopy,
photoluminescence spectroscopy, FTIR spectroscopy, UV and Xray
photoelectron spectroscopy, particle size analysis, charge distribution
analysis (charge on the surface, estimation).
Unit 2
15 L
1.
Gene therapy
2.
Nanobiosensors:
a)
Electrochemical
b)
Optical
c)
Mass and acoustic
d)
Proteins: enzymes, antibiotics based biosensors
e)
Nucleic acids: DNA, RNA based biosensors
3.
Lab on a Chip
References
Springer.
V.