PKPD and Systems Pharmacology

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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. 
3. Or successfully obtain the “Mechanism Based PKPD” micro-credential digital badge. 

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 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.
• PHC 609: Quant Systems Pharmacolcology (fall, 2 credits): This graduate elective course presents principles and applications of quantitative systems pharmacology (QSP) topics that is focused on biochemical reaction networks. QSP is essential to characterize drug action at the molecular scale and has numerous applications to drug development and clinical pharmacology.

Additional required activities/assignments:

• Successful completion of all 3 required courses and of the final Systems Pharmacology question. The final question for badge achievement will encompass pieces of each course and will apply the applications of systems pharmacology and 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 July 31 to be considered for the program beginning in the fall semester.