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EBME 462: CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR IMAGING WILL BE OFFERED BY DRS. MARTY PAGEL AND ZHENGHONG LEE
A new course, EBME 462: Cellular and Molecular Imaging, will be held during the Spring 2005 semester to meet the educational needs of the increasing number of students within the biomedical imaging program and associated research centers at Case. Topics include endogenous methods to assess molecular compositions; imaging agents; reporter genes and proteins; drug delivery; validation; industrial applications; and translational research. These topics will be discussed in the context of applications in cancer, cardiology, central nervous system, ophthalmology, musculoskeletal diseases, pulmonary diseases, and metabolic diseases. Emphasis will be placed on an interdiscplinary problem-based approach to investigate the application of biomedical imaging to biological & disease areas. Formal lectures will be followed by discussion and problem-based assignments after class sessions. The problem-based assignments will be used as the primary gauge to assess learning; a mid-term exam and a final exam will also be scheduled.
Biomedical imaging at Case is in an invigorated stage of growth. Five years ago, investigators in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, Physics, and the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center began a campus-wide and regional program to build a broad imaging research program with special emphasis in small animal and in vivo cellular and molecular imaging. Since that time, we have received over $21 million to acquire imaging infrastructure, an additional net of $16 million has been acquired to fund multidisciplinary research teams (with particular emphasis in cancer research), and funds have been obtained to hire three new faculty members in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and create three additional new appointments in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, and Physics. This growth of research infrastructure, research programs, and new faculty hires to compliment the established biomedical imaging faculty has naturally led to the increased recruitment of graduate students within this area. These graduate students need to develop a strong foundation in cellular and molecular imaging at an early stage in their graduate careers in order to participate within this active research program. This course will be a cornerstone of this foundation.
Cellular and molecular imaging research connects well with many other Case research centers, including the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Center for Modeling Integrated Metabolic Systems (MIMS), the Memory and Aging Center, the Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, and the new Center of Biomolecular and Nanoscale Engineering for Targeted Therapeutics (BioNETT). Graduate students and other members of these other centers have expressed strong interest in multidisciplinary research involving biomedical imaging. These graduate students need to develop a fundamental understanding of biomedical imaging in order to interact within these multidisciplinary research teams. This course will provide the basis for this fundamental understanding of cellular and molecular imaging.
Contact Dr. Marty Pagel for additional details about this new course.
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