INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, PATENTS AND LICENSING

BIOMDSCI 801

Explore political, legal, and ethical issues and paradigms that drive product development within the biotechnology industry with special emphasis given to how new drugs, devices, and biologics are regulated by local, national, and global agencies. Describe the regulations and ethics of human subjects' research. Develop skills to support how regulation and politics interact with business and finance to influence the formation and growth of biotechnology companies. Discuss how ethics and regulatory policy influence how biotechnology products come to market.

BIOMDSCI 822

Explore contemporary issues in the business of biotechnology and apply concepts critical to the success of modern biotechnology firms. Focus on modern problem-solving topics, including issues relating to corporate leadership, fundings sources for product development, customer identification, financial accounting management, and negotiation.

BIOMDSCI 831

Investigate state-of-the-art topics of global importance to biotechnology. Integrated skills and knowledge to achieve synergistic levels of understanding the importance of biotechnology today. Formulate the scientific, ethical, and regulatory standards used in the development of novel technologies around the globe. Increase awareness for intellectual collaboration and entrepreneurship opportunities.

ABT 765

A survey of biotechnology assessments in areas such as regenerative medicine, agricultural biotechnology, and bioremediation. Course links disciplines with the critical evaluative role played by scientific discovery, market valuation, intellectual property, freedom-to-operate (FTO), and licensing strategy by assessing the role each played in the commercialization of a specific technology.

BIOMDSCI 834

Identify a global biotechnology problem, find a novel technical solution, analyze all aspects from a business, regulatory, and intellectual property perspective, and deliver a final written capstone thesis.