MBiotech Electives
BTC1830HS Medical & Scientific Challenges
This course is intended to provide a broad perspective on the complete product development and marketing process surrounding medical technologies, with emphasis on new therapeutic entities.Click here for a .pdf of the Course Outline.
Schedule
Next offered TBA.
For Credit
BTC1830H is being offered as both a 0.5 credit graduate course for students (conditional upon enrolment figures, non-MBiotech graduate students are welcome to enroll in this course) and as a not-for-credit certificate course to non-students eager for professional development.
For Certificate of Completion
Medical & Scientific Marketing is also offered as a not-for-credit MBiotech certificate course to non-students interested in professional development. Students must have an undergraduate science degree, or a demonstrated scientific background. The fee is $2,000 CDN. Upon successful completion, students will receive an MBiotech Certificate of Completion. To download the registration form, please click here.
How to enroll
MBiotech and non-MBiotech graduate students who wish to enroll in this course must complete a Course Drop/Add Form, have it authorized by their Director in their home department and submit it for authorization via intercampus mail to:
Adrian Berg, Program Officer
UTM, MBiotech
or by fax to (905) 569-4738
email: adrian.berg@utoronto.ca
You cannot enroll yourself through ROSI. MBiotech will enroll you in the course.
PLEASE NOTE: You will need to provide your Program POSt code, available from your Graduate Program Coordinator.
Watch a video about this course:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8Na0Yra9QQ&feature=g-upl
BTC2040HF Change Management
The course has two objectives:
- to introduce you to the field of organization change management and
- to enhance your analytic and implementation skills.
It focuses on understanding organizational change, aligning human resources to organizational change, and implementing organizational change
Schedule
Next offered: April 2013, intensive mode.
How to enroll
Graduate students who wish to enroll in this course must complete a Course Add/Drop Form, have it authorized by your home program, and submit the form to:
Adrian Berg, Program Officer
UTM, MBiotech
adrian.berg@utoronto.ca
LAW524H1S / BTC2110H - Patent Law for the Life Sciences (will be BTC1840H as of January 2014)
PATENT LAW FOR THE LIFE SCIENCES (LAW524H1S) (BTC2110H) Ariel Katz & Jayson Parker
Offered in January 2013
Lectures: 2 hours weekly (Mondays 2-4pm)
Life Science Graduate students cannot enrol directly via ROSI but must complete a Course Add/Drop Form, have it authorized, and submit the form to: Adrian Berg, Program Officer, Master of Biotechnology, adrian.berg@utoronto.ca
Please note that Life Science Graduate students will be enrolled in BTC2110H, and as such, your transcript will show "Topics in Biotechnology".
Enrolment: 35 students (law students and graduate life science students)
This course is intended for law students (ideally with some background in life science) and life science graduate students. The course introduces patent law in the first four lectures and then examines the application of this framework through a series of specific examples drawn from commercial examples of biotechnology and medical devices. Patent agents and lawyers working in specific areas of patent protection will participate in the latter part of the course. Lectures, through cases drawn through the industrial application of biotechnology and medical devices, will expand and build upon the legal basics set out in the introduction of the course. Guest speakers will either be patent agents or patent lawyers who work in the area in question.
Evaluation: Final sit-down closed book 2-hour exam (50%), major team project (40%, of which 20% written assignment 3,500 words; oral presentation 20%; all students in a team will receive the same grade adjusted to the different Faculty grading scales); class participation 10%.
Major project: Students will be randomly assigned to teams that will be responsible for putting together a short patent application for mock submission. A commercial example will be introduced in class where a specific set of 3 published peer reviewed papers will be designated as the prior art along with any media reports as appropriate. Students will treat any published findings outside this designated prior art as a “new discovery” from their labs. Student teams will then, upon a pre-set time, be able to register patent claims online on a web site upon submission of a patent filing. Once instructors have received this filing, these claims and the discovery become part of the prior art in the course other teams must negotiate in submitting their patent filings. Students will be limited by the fees associated with the number of claims they can make and what is appropriate for a single patent application. The online website (blackboard) will have a time stamp of each patent submission. The last session in the class will involve teams as they briefly present their claims and discuss in the context of other group declarations the possible infringement by others, the strength of their claims, freedom to operate and experimental support.
Update: this course has been formally numbered BTC1840H and will be offered as such in January 2014.
BTC1850H - Creating Life Science Products
This course is about product development for the life sciences. No prior business, regulatory or biological knowledge is required. This is an interdisciplinary course open to graduate students from diverse departments ranging from biological sciences, engineering, business, computer science, psychology and law (to name a few). In addition, students from OCAD University are also invited to participate. Students are organized into cross-functional teams that focus on coming up with a commercially relevant improvement to a life science product on the market or a completely novel product that can generate revenue within 24 months from inception. It is possible that some student teams may register new companies, file trademarks or provisional patents. The types of technologies in the life sciences reviewed, but are not limited to, are: drugs, diagnostics, medical devices, herbal products, biomaterials, life science smart phone apps, wireless healthcare and life science software. At the completion of this course students should be able to:
· Understand the basic issues in trade mark registration, patent filings and new business registrations
· Basic regulatory knowledge of medical devices, software and drugs used by the US Food and Drug Administration
· Clinical validation issues for technologies across the commercial spectrum
· Appropriate use of treatment guidelines
· Creating effective proposals for a new life science products for industry
Next offered: Fall 2013/Winter 2014. This is a half credit course that will meet twice monthly, and span both semesters fall and winter.
BTC2100Y, 2110H and 2120H - Topics in Biotechnology
These elective courses are restricted to MBiotech students and comprise either individual self-taught projects or participation in eligible science or business courses, supplemented by extra projects, subject to approval by the Director.
Electives offered by Other Programs
Please be sure to get electives approved by the MBiotech Program if you plan on taking courses through other programs/units. A Course Exemption Form must be approved by the Program Director, MBiotech, if you would like these courses, or any other courses, considered for use towards graduation requirements.
Some courses that may be of interest to MBiotech students, that are offered by other departments in Winter 2013, include:
CHL 5121H Genomics, Bioethics and Public Policy
Jan 8 - Apr 2, 2013, Tues 9am-12noon
ECE 1778 - Creative Applications for Mobile Devices
Starts Wed Jan 9th, 9-11am
http://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~jayar/ece1778/
HAD 5735H - The Commercialization of Health Research
Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME)
*Dates, times subject to change.
For more information about the above courses, please contact Adrian in the MBiotech office.
Courses at Other Universities
The Ontario Visting Graduate Student Application (OVGS) agreement permits a registered student to take the equivalent of up to 1 full credit towards their program course requirements at another Ontario university, without completing further admission formalities, when the course is not available at U of T. The student pays fees at U of T as per normal and is classified as a non-degree visiting student at the host university, where (s)he pays no fees. Courses taken through OVGS must be requirements of the U of T degree program. Normally graduate students should not participate in OVGS in their final year unless the official grade will be received by the SGS final grade and degree recommendation submission deadlines.
For more information, please contact the MBiotech Program Officer.