Rapid Biotech education for busy professionals
Rapid Biotech education for busy professionals
• What makes a cell alive
• What makes cells healthy or diseased
• Birth, life and death of human cells
• Self and non-self
• The clients: cells, viruses and macromolecules
• The providers: immune system cells, organs and signals
• The complement system
• Programmed cell death and Immunosurveillance
• Wounds, necrosis and inflammation
• Infections and the adaptive immune response
• Vaccinations and immunizations
• Acute vs. chronic inflammation
• Allergies
• Autoimmune diseases
• Autoinflammatory diseases
• Systemic inflammation, and sepsis
• Immunodeficiencies
• Cancer
• From hybridomas to recombinant antibodies
• ELISA, Western blots, and other immunodiagnostics
• Affinity chromatography, FACS and other techniques
• Therapeutic antibodies
• Respiratory diseases: bacterial immunomodulators
• Multiple sclerosis: interferons and antibodies
• Her2+ cancers : combination therapeutic antibodies
• Cancer: checkpoint inhibitors
• Cancer: CART-cell therapies
• Immunology and the microbiota
• Immunology and epigenetics
• Synthetic immunology
A two day course made for all scientists and non-scientists working in pharma and biotech.
For a long time, the immune system was thought to be merely a defense system against infections, isolated from other physiological systems…
We now know that it is much more than that. From monitoring the quality of every gene expressed in our bodies to killing old or imperfect cells and repairing all kinds of tissue damage, the immune system can keep us healthy throughout most of our lives or make us terribly ill.
In addition to offering key insights into health and diseases, immunology has provided scientists and doctors with incredible tools for research, therapeutics and diagnostics. Without immunology, biomedical researchers would be blind.
No matter what your line of work may be in pharma or biotech, gaining a good basic understanding of immunology and its applications is essential to bioliteracy.
Leveraging on our 10 year-long experience in transdisciplinary life science education aimed at busy professionals, this small group course provides a toolbox where all the essential concepts of immunology are explained simply but thoroughly as tools for pharma, biotech and healthcare.
It makes the invisible world of immunological mechanisms, innate and adaptive immunity and immunological conditions visible and understandable.
It also explains the modes of action of different immunotherapies the promises they hold but also the concerns and the challenges that lie ahead.
Vanya Loroch, PhD
Molecular Biologist, professional educator, science storyteller
focusing on cancer biology and immunology.
Current and former positions: University of California,
University of Geneva, Business School Lausanne, Swiss Biotech
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