Recent Advances in Therapy in Hearing and Vision Course Content

Date

Topic

Week 1

Lecture 0: Course Intro

Lecture 1: Evaluating unmet medical needs

Week 2

Lecture 2: Stages of translational medicine

Week 3

Lecture 3: Eye diseases

Week 4

Lecture 4: Hearing diseases

Week 5

Lecture 5: Drug discovery methods

Week 6

Lecture 6: Preclinical efficacy/animal models

Week 7

Lecture 7: Preclinical safety/ PK/ADME

Week 8

Lecture 8: Drug delivery/formulation

Week 9

Lecture 9: IP and regulatory in science

Week 10

 Lecture 10: Clinical Trial development

Week 11

Lecture 11: Gene therapy 

Week 12

Lecture 12: Optic nerve regeneration

Week 13

Lecture 13: Cell based therapy

Week 14

Lecture 14: Successful examples of new therapies

TBD

Workshop 1: Auditory physiology testing

TBD

Workshop 2: Noise models

TBD

Workshop 3: ERG

TBD

Workshop 4: OCT and fundus imaging

TBD

Workshop 5: Dissection of mouse eyes

TBD

Workshop 6: H&E staining and imaging

TBD

Final exam