Courses Taught by Professor Peeler
BIOE 251: (Fall term, 4 credits) This is the first in a three-course series that introduces students to foundational principles in bioengineering. Topics include units, dimensional analysis, energy balances, conservation of mass, energy, and momentum, and introductory biomechanics.
BIOE 410: Drug Delivery (Spring term, 4 credits) This course introduces students to the principles, strategies, and materials used to deliver therapeutic agents to the body. The course begins with the fundamentals of drug delivery (physiology, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, and transport processes governing drug release, diffusion, and permeation) and then surveys the major classes of modern therapeutics, from small molecules and peptides to proteins, nucleic acids, and cell-based therapies. Building on these foundations, students will examine how drugs are delivered across the principal routes of administration (oral, dermal, pulmonary, subcutaneous, and intravenous) and how physical and immune barriers can be modulated to improve delivery. A hands-on laboratory module introduces the formulation and characterization of lipid nanoparticles, and a term-long design project challenges students to propose their own delivery system in the form of a research grant proposal.Prerequisites: general chemistry, organic chemistry, general biology.