Curriculum for Pharmaceutical Design and Engineering

Programme provision

The 2-year program adds up to 120 ECTS points. To obtain the MSc degree in Pharmaceutical Design and Engineering the student must fulfill the following requirements:

  • Have passed Polytechnical foundation courses adding up to at least 10 ECTS
  • Have passed Programme specific courses adding up to at least 50 ECTS
  • Have performed a Master Thesis of 30 ECTS points within the field of the general program
  • Have passed a sufficient number of Elective courses to bring the total number of ECTS of the entire study to 120 ECTS

Curriculum

Polytechnical foundation courses (10 ECTS)

The following courses are mandatory:

12100 Quantitative Sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point F7 (Tues 18-22)
or
12106 Quantitative Sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17)
or
12105 Quantitative Sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point E7 (Tues 18-22)
or
12101 Quantitative Sustainability (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point Spring F3B (Fri 13-17)
42500 Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point January
or
42504 Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point August
or
42501 Innovation in Engineering (Polytechnical Foundation) 5 point June

Students with advanced innovation competences may take one of the following courses as an alternative to 42500/42501/42504:

42502 Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams 5 point January
or
42505 Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams 5 point August
or
42503 Facilitating Innovation in Multidisciplinary Teams 5 point June

Programme specific courses (50 ECTS)

Innovation course II - choose 5 ECTS among the following courses: 

22179 Module 3: Value creation in pharma- and biotechnology 5 point January and June

Core competence courses - mandatory (25 ECTS)

22231 Module 1: From idea to project plan in biotech and pharmaceutical research 5 point Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12) and Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17)
22238 Module 2: Pilot project in Pharmaceutical Design and Engineering 5 point Autumn and Spring
or
22239 Module 2: Pilot project in Pharmaceutical Design and Engineering (3 weeks) 5 point January, June, July, August
26436 Pharmaceutical Drug Development 10 point Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17)
28850 Pharmaceutical Process Development 5 point Spring F5A (Wed 8-12)

Core competence courses - choose 10 ECTS among the following courses:
22235 Drug delivery 5 point Spring F5B (Wed 13-17)
27101 Assay Technology 5 point June
27430 Eukaryotic cell biology 5 point Spring F3A (Tues 8-12)

The extra ECTS points in this group will automatically be a part of the overall ECTS points of the programme specific courses.

Choose 5 ECTS among the following programme specific courses:

22117 Protein structure and computational biology 5 point Spring F5A (Wed 8-12)
22125 Algorithms in bioinformatics 5 point June
22126 Next-Generation-Sequencing Analysis 5 point January
22161 Introduction to programming in Life Science using Python, MSc 5 point Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12)
22201 Immune System, Anatomy & Development 5 point Spring F4B (Fri 8-12)
22202 Molecular diagnostics and precision medicine 5 point Spring F2A (Mon 13-17)
22210 Immune System in Health and Disease 5 point Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)
22230 Development and production of vaccines 5 point Spring F4A (Tues 13-17)
26426 Introduction to Medicinal Chemistry 5 point Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12)
26433 Organic Chemistry 3 5 point Autumn E4A (Tues 13-17)
26438 NMR Spectroscopy 5 point Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12)
28233 Recovery and purification of biological products 5 point Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17)

Choose 5 ECTS among the following programme specific courses:

22112 High Performance Computing in Life Science 5 point Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)
22145 Immunological Bioinformatics 5 point Autumn E5A (Wed 8-12)
22210 Immune System in Health and Disease 5 point Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17)
22236 Immunotherapy 5 point Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12)
22237 Preclinical drug development 5 point Autumn E5A (Wed 8-12)
22284 Living models of body barriers and organs 5 point Spring F4A (Tues 13-17)
22508 Practical NMR spectroscopy: Making reactions in (bio)chemistry visible 5 point June
22603 Light microscopy for life science 5 point Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12)
23205 Fighting infectious diseases 5 point Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12)
26125 Chromatographic (HPLC) Purification of Biological Macromolecules 5 point June
26422 Biomolecular Chemistry 5 point Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12)
26446 Advanced Medicinal Chemistry 5 point Spring F2A (Mon 13-17)

N.B. The programme specific courses must add up in total to 50 ECTS points.

Elective Courses

Any course classified as an MSc course in DTU's course base may be an elective course. This includes programme-specific courses above the minimal requirements. Master students may choose as many as 10 ECTS among the bachelor courses at DTU and courses at an equivalent level from other higher institutions. In addition, it is possible to take MSc-level courses at other Danish universities or abroad.

Head of Studies

Line Hagner Nielsen

Line Hagner Nielsen Group leader, Associate Professor Phone: +45 45255751