Candidates to be admitted into the Master of Molecular Biomedical Engineering (BioE) must have obtained a good Bachelor’s degree with at least a GPA of 3.0/5.0 or its equivalent in the appropriate field of :
(a) (a) Possession of a second-class Bachelor’s degree in specialty subjects, with at least a GPA of 3.0/5.0 or its equivalent in an appropriate area of study from an accredited university or similar institution of higher learning. Students who need to join the Masters of Molecular Biomedical Engineering programme shall therefore need to have the following specialty (Engineering) specific qualifications: Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of electrical and biomedical engineering, Chemical Engineering, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Biotechnology, Molecular Biology; Biomedical Technology, Clinical chemistry; Biochemistry, Biotechnology/Bioengineering, Analytical Chemistry or any other related engineering discipline for postgraduate course.
(b) (b) Applicants holding unclassified degrees (e.g. M.D, BVM & DDS) should have at least an overall of “C” grade in addition to above specialty specific qualifications.
Duration of Study
- Full Time : Two Years
- Part Time : Three Years
Programme expected learning outcomes :
- (i) Describe vaccine and drug development and delivery systems and molecular diagnostics, including biosensors.
- (ii) Explain thermodynamics concepts in biological systems and its application in real situations.
- (iii) Describe concepts of bioreactor designing.
- (iv) Apply skills for developing diagnostic assays, vaccine, drugs and their delivery systems, biosensors
- (v) Design and develop bioreactors.
- (vi) Apply skills required for analysis of DNA/RNA, protein sequence data (OMICs data), purification of proteins/enzymes and analysis of protein/enzyme functions.
- (vii) Conduct hands on biomedical research in living labs/models and industrial in bioproduct development; vaccines and diagnostics development.
- (viii) Communicate scientific ideas to specialized and non-specialized audience.
- (xi) Design and develop molecular diagnostics assays and sensors using engineering concepts.
Course Categories
Common Cores
- (i) (BuSH 6007) Foundation of Law, Philosophy and Ethics
- (ii) (BuSH 6008) Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship Management
Common Core at School Level
- (i) (LSBE 6101) Research Methods and Statistics
- (ii) (LSBE 6102) Outreach and internship
- (iii) (LSBE 6401) Graduate Seminars
- (iv) (LSBE 6901) Dissertation (Bio engineering research)
Programme cores
- (i) (BIOS 6101) Molecular and cell biology
Programme specialties :
(i) Health and Biomedical Sciences
- (a) (BioE 6201) Mathematics for Biosciences
- (b) (BioE 6202) Biosensors
- (c) (BioE 6203) Functional Genomics
- (e) (BioE 6204) Design and Development of Molecular Diagnostics and devices
- (f) (BioE 6205) Nanoscience
Electives :
- (a) (BioE 6301) Protein Design and Engineering
- (b) (BioE 6302) Advanced Biological Thermodynamics
- (c) (BioE 6303) Bioreactor Design and Operations
- (e) (BioE 6304) Microbial Engineering
- (f) (BioE 6305) Practical Course in Genetic Engineering
- (g) (BioE 6306) Protein Chemistry and Catalysis
- (h) (BioE 6307) Material analysis
- (i) (BioE 6308) Novel drug technology and dosage
- (j) (BioE 6309) Vaccinology
- (k) (BioE 6310) Synthestic biology
- (l) (BioE 6311) Bioprocess engineering
- (m) (BioE 6312) Bioengineering Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- (n) (BioE 6313) Microbial physiology
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