Frontiers in Biotechnology

The goal of this course is to educate students about the scientific advances and resulting tools that have allowed the biotech revolution, to chronicle the implementation of recent advances in biotechnology, and to identify those areas of great unmet need in which biotechnology can play a major role in the future. Frontiers in Biotechnology comprises eight individual units focusing on what we view to be eight of the most cutting edge advances in biotechnology. We have designed the course around the concepts that "Biotechnology" is a vast enterprise with a huge number of applications and that the ultimate goal of any biotechnology is application to a pressing human need. Thus, in each unit we engage industrial experts to provide real-world, real-time snapshots of biotechnology applications.