Short Course Information
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Faculty from the participating institutions have agreed to present seven Short Courses on the topics listed below. All registered participants (students, faculty, industrial representatives) will be permitted to attend one of these Short Courses. The course details can be viewed by following the hyperlinks below.

We will provide overhead projectors and slide projectors. Each short-course coordinator is encouraged to bring a laptop computer for the course, and each lecturer should bring their presentation on a cd or some other medium.

Short Course Program:
1. Mucosal Vaccination
Faculty Participants: G. Borchard (LACDR), H.E. Junginger (LACDR), M. Bivas-Benita (LACDR), P. Green (Becton-Dickinson)
2. Designing Drugs with Optimal in vivo Activity Following Oral Administration
Faculty Participants: R. Borchardt (Kansas), V. Stella (Kansas), K. Brouwer (UNC), D. Thakker (UNC), P. Burton (Pharmacia)
3. Barriers to CNS Drug Delivery / Transporters
Faculty Participants: B. Elmquist (Nebraska), R. Keep (Michigan), D. Smith (Michigan), K. Audus (Kansas), R. Borchardt (Kansas), D. Miller (Nebraska)
4. Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences
Faculty/Industry Participants: H. Wang (Michigan), M. Van de Walle (Michigan), T. Peterson (Arboretum Ventures), S. Brahmasandra (Handylab), B. Worzel (Genetics Squared), D. Humes (Nephros Therapeutics), S. Sensoli (Geneworks), L. Giri (Bioport), R. Newton (Esperion Therapeutics), A. Siosanshi (Michigan)
5. Stability of Peptides, Proteins and Nucleotides
Faculty Participants: C. Schöneich (Kansas), E. M. Topp (Kansas), T. Siahaan (Kansas), R. Middaugh (Kansas), M. Manning (U. Colorado), M. Pikal (U. Connecticut), E. Munson (Kansas)
6. Modern Molecular Biopharmaceutics: Transporters
Faculty Participants: Gordon Amidon (Michigan), Gustavo Rosania (Michigan), Akira Tsuji (Kanazawa), Hiroshi Suzuki (Tokyo), Vincent Lee (USC)
7. Dermal / Transdermal Drug Delivery
Faculty Participants: G. Imanidis (Basel), G. Flynn (Michigan), R. Guy (Pharmapeptides/U of Geneva), W. Higuchi (U of Utah), M. Roberts (U of Queensland), A. Urtti (U of Kuopio)