gsw130 Regenerative Medicine in Ophthalmology

Enrolment in Master´s programme Molecular Biomedicine

Competencies:
++ comprehensive understanding of the fundamentals of regenerative research
++ deepened knowledge of clinical aspects of eye diseases
++ deepened knowledge of biological lab methods and clinical diagnostics
(classical tissue engineering, cell culture and molecular laboratory methods)
++ systematic understanding in translational research
  + interdisciplinary thinking
  + critical and analytical thinking
++ data analysis and interpretation skills
++ data presentation and discussion (written and spoken)
++ teamwork

The module focuses on regenerative medicine in ophthalmology.

Lectures:
Fundamentals of ophthalmologic diseases and insights of current ophthalmologic research projects including tissue engineering methods

Exercises:
Practical laboratory work: generation of tissue engineered artificial cornea, preparation of porcine cornea and retina, cultivation of primary corneal stem cells, sample preparation for protein and mRNA, Western Blotting, PCR, Paraffin sectioning, HE-staining

Textbooks of ophthalmology, anatomy, current literature concerning tissue engineering methods in ophthalmology. Primary and secondary literature of the field will be provided and introduced at the first meeting.