M.Tech Molecular Medicine at Amrita School of Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine, Kochi Offline Course

Molecular Medicine is the study of molecular and cellular phenomena in biological systems that enhances our understanding of human diseases and facilitates discovery research in medicines, vaccines, disease prevention, disease diagnosis and therapy. It offers opportunities for many new fundamental insights into the mechanisms of diseases, and avenues for diagnostics and therapy that couldn’t have been imagined even a decade earlier. This program helps the student gain expertise in the design of drugs by understanding the molecular pathways of action and identify molecular markers of diseases for diagnostics & therapy. It helps to identify fundamental and genetic errors of various diseases. It is also about developing molecular interventions to correct them. The course is structured in such a way that the diagnostic, the therapeutic and the prognostic aspects of the disease are covered so that the patients are benefitted well. The different courses offered include human physiology, molecular basis of diseases, genetic engineering, human genetics, clinical microbiology, bioinformatics, molecular biology, biochemistry & cell biology. Applications include providing genetic & molecular markers indicative of higher risk of a disease as well as to identify environmental risk factors. Many markers have been developed by this group for neurodegenerative diseases.