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The development of new therapeutic products for the medical biotechnology industry requires comprehensive knowledge of techniques used to investigate their effects on various biological pathways at a cellular level. This unit will provide you with an opportunity to apply theoretical and practical knowledge of medical biotechnology, drug development and pre-clinical testing of a new therapeutic product for industry commercialisation. You will develop new practical skills and gain experience in experimental models used to study human disease and apply these in a simulated industry environment. Your practical skills and demonstration of professional knowledge, attitude and compliance with relevant safety protocols will be assessed in a laboratory environment. Attendance at the practical activities at a compulsory residential school is a requirement of this unit. You will also develop the skills to communicate your findings to a broader audience in the medical biotechnology industry through both written reports and oral presentations.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisite: BMSC12010 Clinical Biochemistry
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2025
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student feedback, self reflection
Students felt that the laboratory manual needed updating to better describe the experimental procedures.
The laboratory manual for the residential school should be updated to cover the experiments performed.
Feedback from Self reflection
Lecturer feels that the tutorials need to be updated to better reflect the ongoing changes in the biotechnology area.
Consider updating the unit content to align with the changes that have occurred in the biotechnology field since COVID19.
- Conduct molecular or cell-based tests used to study human disease
- Display professional behaviour consistent with the safety and ethical practices of the laboratory
- Critically analyse current scientific literature
- Think critically to solve problems during the development and testing of therapeutics
- Effectively communicate experimental findings to industry professionals through written reports and oral presentations.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Practical Assessment - 0% | |||||
| 2 - Report - 60% | |||||
| 3 - Presentation - 40% | |||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Communication | |||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | |||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | |||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | |||||
| 5 - Team Work | |||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | |||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | |||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | |||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Practical Assessment - 0% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Report - 60% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Presentation - 40% | ||||||||||