Pharmaceutical Chemistry - Cell and Gene Therapy Sciences

Overview

The objective of the Professional Science master in Pharmaceutical Chemistry - Cell and Gene Therapy Sciences from New Jersey Institute of Technology is to prepare students, as well as professional scientists and engineers, for dynamic careers in the biopharmaceutical industry. 

Learning Outcomes

Through their advanced coursework and research opportunities, we aim for students of the program to meet the following learning outcomes:

• Become adept at identifying strengths and weaknesses of particular methods, and determining which one are optimal for particular synthetic operations

• Become familiar with cellular digestion, absorption and metabolism, including regulatory processes and pathology-induced interruptions

• Explain the basic elements of structure of amino acids, proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates and lipids

• Describe higher-order structure in proteins and relate it to function

• Demonstrate the role of the intermolecular forces in macromolecular structure and function

• Interpret kinetic data and identify types of enzyme inhibition

• Write and describe the key biosynthetic pathways in living systems