HN 217 - The Chemistry Within Us

(3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: HN 215 . Restricted to Honors students. Examines biomedical research and experimental medicine using an interdisciplinary approach and focusing on four major themes: frontiers of medical research; diseases, drugs, and drug development; and food science. Building upon ideas studied in HN215, students are provided an opportunity to reexamine biochemical ideas at great depths. Includes specific applications and examples ranging from modern drugs and the drug design process to the chemistry of food and smells, and from cancer biology to stem cell research. Counts as an Honors natural sciences seminar.