Biochemical Engineering MSc

伦敦大学学院生物化学工程硕士学位的目标是让英国公司更好地获取与知识密集型、高科技(生物)制造相关的附加值。我们专门针对最近BIGT、ABPI和IB-IGT报告中确定的实际生物工艺技能需求，并强调了工业生物技术和具有成本效益的全球医疗保健提供方面的新机遇和生物工艺挑战。现有的课程在提供高质量的跨学科研究生教育方面有着良好的记录。新的硕士课程将以此为基础，提供两个方向，一个面向生物科学或化学毕业生，另一个面向工程学毕业生。这两个方向的学生都将接受培训，了解如何将生命科学和化学方面的进步最有效地转化为对所有人都有利的实际结果。与高级生化工程中心(ACBE)的研究活动密切联系，确保围绕最新的科学发现和生物处理技术开展培训。我们的行业合作伙伴正在采用新的微型生化工程和建模方法来进行小型化实验，为学生探索一系列新兴的生物过程挑战并建立可在我们独特的中试工厂设施中验证的放大预测提供了基础。硕士课程的内容将大大受益于与劳工部的后经验MBI培训计划的联系，在该计划中，约80名行业专家与理科学生一起帮助向行业代表讲授。新方案将分为四个不同但相关的要素。1)转换元素(45学分)--生物化学工程基础(理科毕业生)。提供与生物材料处理和应用数值技术描述生物系统有关的过程工程的基本原理。-高级生命科学(面向工科毕业生)。提供对细胞和蛋白质的功能及其分子工程或进化的见解，以提高效率和生物过程性能。2)高级生化工程和生物工艺实施(60学分)这些核心要素将教授以生物为基础的制造的设计，即发酵和生物转化，随后的回收，纯化和产品配方。这将得到一系列关于单个机组运行的实验的支持。缩小规模的新微型生物化学方法将拓宽学生的实践知识。所获得的信息将用于研究/设计项目，并在该部门的试点工厂进行为期一周的整个生物过程研究期间进行实验验证。3)研究或设计项目(45学分)上述要素在前8个月内同时完成，以便所获得的技能可以应用于设计或研究项目。-希望获得特许工程师资格的研究生科学家的生物工艺设计项目这是该方案的重要组成部分。它涉及生物过程的完整设计，以及经济和安全分析，以及验证考虑。2009年，该项目审查了对大流行性流感疫苗的要求。-生物过程研究项目每个候选人在一名教职员工的监督下，进行他们选择的原创研究项目。学生们完全融入了ACBE内的一个多学科研究团队。主题包括从化学-酶合成到治疗性抗体和干细胞生物处理。4)生物技术企业的管理(30学分)这一要素认识到，新产品和新工艺的发现往往是由小型高科技公司推动的。它的中心是生产和提交一份生物工艺商业计划。

The objective of the UCL Biochemical Engineering MSc is to better enable UK companies to capture the added value associated with knowledge-intensive, high-technology (bio)manufacture. We specifically address practical bioprocess skills needs identified in recent BIGT, ABPI and IB-IGT reports and highlight new opportunities and bioprocess challenges in Industrial Biotechnology and cost-effective global healthcare provision. The existing course has a proven track record of providing high quality interdisciplinary postgraduate education. The new MSc programme will build on this to offer two streams, one for bioscience or chemistry graduates and the other for engineering graduates. Students on both streams will be trained to understand how advances in the life sciences and chemistry can most effectively be translated into real outcomes of benefit to all. Close linkage to the research activities of The Advanced Centre for Biochemical Engineering (ACBE) ensures that training is built around the latest scientific discoveries and bioprocessing technologies. New micro biochemical engineering and modelling approaches to scale-down experimentation, now being taken up by our industrial collaborators, provide the basis on which students can explore a range of emerging bioprocess challenges and establish scale-up predictions to be verified in our unique pilot plant facilities. The content of the MSc programmes will benefit considerably from linkage to the department's post experience MBI Training Programme, in which some 80 industrial experts help deliver to industrial delegates, alongside MSc students. The new programme will be divided into four distinct but related elements. 1) CONVERSION ELEMENTS (45 Credits) - Biochemical Engineering Fundamentals (for science graduates). To provide the fundamentals of process engineering relevant to the handling of biological materials and the application of numerical techniques to describe biological systems. - Advanced Life Sciences (for engineering graduates). To provide insights into the function of cells and proteins and their molecular engineering or evolution to enhance efficency and bioprocess performance. 2) ADVANCED BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING & BIOPROCESS IMPLEMENTATION (60 Credits) These core elements will teach the design of bio-based manufacturing, i.e. fermentation & biotransformation, subsequent recovery, purification and formulation of products. This will be supported by a series of experiments on individual unit operations. New micro biochemical approaches to scale-down will broaden the student's practical knowledge. Information obtained will lead into research/design projects and be verified experimentally during week-long whole bioprocess studies in the department's pilot plant facility. 3) RESEARCH OR DESIGN PROJECT (45 Credits) The elements above are completed concurrently in the first 8 months so that the skills gained may be applied to either a design or research project. - Bioprocess Design Project For graduate scientists wishing to obtain Chartered Engineer status this is a vital part of the programme. It involves the complete design of a bioprocess, together with economic and safety analyses, and validation considerations. In 2009 the project examined the requirements for a pandemic flu vaccine. - Bioprocess Research Project Each candidate carries out an original research project of their choice, under the supervision of a member of academic staff. The students are fully integrated into one of the multidisciplinary research teams within the ACBE. Topics range from chemo-enzymatic synthesis to therapeutic antibody and stem cell bioprocessing. 4) MANAGEMENT OF BIOPROCESS VENTURES (30 Credits) This element recognises that discovery of new products and processes is often driven by small, high-tech companies. It is centred on production and presentation of a bioprocess business plan.