Mechanism Based PKPD

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Who is eligible?

Intended for both UB students and non-degree students

Requirements:

1. Hold a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in a scientific discipline (e.g., biology, chemistry, pharmaceutical sciences, or related field), or pursuing a PharmD (Early Assurance type program), or
2. Be currently employed in a health care-related field (e.g., pharmacy, medicine, nursing, clinical research). These requirements ensure that participants have the foundational knowledge or professional context necessary to engage with the advanced pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic concepts covered in the program.

Courses are asynchronous remote, in which learning materials are provided online, and students can view these materials and complete tasks at their own pace. However, there are also required due dates.

Earn a B- or better in the three required courses:

• PHC 531: Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics (spring, 4 credits): This course is designed for students to learn and apply biopharmaceutical and pharmacokinetic theory and pharmacodynamics principles to solve clinical problems that require the optimization and monitoring of drug therapy for provision of pharmaceutical care to patients.
• PHC 607: Intermediate Pharmacokinetics (fall, 3 credits): This course covers the theoretical development of the major methods, models, and equations used in pharmacokinetics with their physicochemical and physiological assumptions and limitations. It employs current graphical and computer methods of applying pharmacokinetics to analysis of experimental and clinical data; as well as evaluating literature and approaches to design of studies and recovery of essential drug parameters.
• PHC 608: Advanced Pharmacokinetics (spring, 3 credits): This graduate elective course presents principles and applications of contemporary empirical and mechanism-based mathematical modeling approaches to characterize the pharmacokinetic properties of small and macromolecule drugs within the context of drug discovery and development. Case studies will be used to demonstrate how to identify, interpret, and in some cases predict drug- and system-specific properties that control the time-course and extent of drug exposure in relevant biological fluids (e.g., plasma) and sites of action.

Additional required activities/assignments:

• Successful completion of all 3 required courses and of the final PKPD question. The final question for badge achievement will encompass pieces of each course and will apply the applications of advanced PKPD based on data from clinical practice

• Credit

Online (100 percent of the degree requirements can be fulfilled online)

3 semesters

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Submit your application by December 31 to be considered for the program beginning in the spring semester.