Provides an overview of biomaterials. Covers major classes of materials used in medical applications, properties, degradation mechanisms, and characterization methods, foreign body response, methods to control physiological response to biomaterial surfaces, biocompatibility, biomaterials used in soft and hard tissue replacements, drug delivery devices and tissue engineering, and design criteria for developing a material for a given biological application. Prereq., CHEM 3311 (min. grade C-). Same as CHEN 5805. Prerequisites: Requires a pre-requisite course of CHEN 2810 or MCDB 1150 or EBIO 1220 and 1230.