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.

The number of participants is limited to 5. Students which are enrolled in Master´s programme Molecular Biomedicine will be preferred.

protocol  (30%) and presentation (70%)