[Free] Marine Natural Products
Marine environment as a source of organisms and biomolecules of high biotechnological and pharmaceutical potencial – Free Course
What you’ll learn
- Identify which group of marine organisms and which marine natural products represent the highest value in marine biotechnology
- Describe the possible ways of obtaining bioactive compounds for biotechnological and industrial applications
- Understand and describe all stages of the downstream processing and bioactivity guided fractionation
- Explain the advantage of marine natural products as potential drugs
- Define the key drivers in marine drug development
- Understand the potential of marine-derived compounds as value-added products
- Describe the most significant achievements and most important products of marine biotechnology sector
- Identify marine biotechnology as an area of professional career
- Gain knowledge about the most recent findings in marine biotechnology
Requirements
- Blue Biotechnology for you!
Description
The course on Marine Natural Products enables the students to gain basic knowledge about the significance of marine environment as a source of organisms and biomolecules of high biotechnological and pharmaceutical potential. In an easy and illustrative manner, subsequent steps of the drug development process, from organism to product, will be presented. Students will learn about alternative methods which ensure the supply of sufficient amount of material for product commercialization. Then, a wide variety of biotechnological and pharmaceutical applications as value added products will be demonstrated. Students will gain knowledge about the size of MNPs global market and the trends in its development. They will also learn about the major drivers and bottlenecks determining the development of marine biotechnology sector. Author(s): SB FOCUS project
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