Brown University requires a minimum of 24 tuition credits for the PhD degree. Students may continue to register for elective courses that are related to their training throughout their time at Brown. Below are suggested courses. In addition, an entire course catalog is available.
Fall Semester 2025
| Code | Title | Schedule | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIOL 0470 | Genetics | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10:30 - 11:50am | Mark Johnson, Erica Larschan & Jody Hall |
| BIOL 1110 | Cell Physiology and Biophysics | Mondays, 3:00-5:30pm | Anita Zimmerman |
| BIOL 2020 | Biotechnology Science & Industry | Thursdays, 5:00-7:30pm | Eric Huang |
| BIOL 1520 | Innate Immunity | Mondays & Wednesdays, 8:30-9:50am | Laurent Brossay |
| BIOL 1535 | Survey of Biomedical Informatics | Mondays, 3:00-5:30pm | Neil Sarkar |
| BIOL 1970A | Stem Cell Biology | Mondays, 2:00-4:30pm | Richard Freiman |
| BIOL 2020 | Biotechnology Science and Industry | Thursdays, 5:00-7:30pm | Eric Huang |
| BIOL 2024 | Gene and RNA Therapeutic Development | Tuesdays, 4:30-7:00pm | Kailene Simon |
| BIOL 2025 | Foundations in Statistics for Biology and Medicine |
Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10:30-11:50am |
Liz Chen |
| BIOL 2030 | Foundations for Advanced Study in the Life Sciences | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:00-10:20am | Gerwald Jogl & Sofia Lizarraga |
| BIOL 2050 | Biology of the Eukaryotic Cell | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:00-2:20pm | Chuck Toth |
| BIOL 2089 | The Importance of Intellectual Property in Biotechnology | Wednesdays, 4:00-6:30pm | Daniel Holmander & Jeffrey Morgan |
| BIOL 2220 | Topics in Signal Transduction | Wednesdays, 3:00-5:30pm | Elena Oancea |
| BIOL 2222B | Current Topics in Functional Genomics | Tuesdays, 1:00-3:30pm | Erica Larschan & Carlos Silva-Garcia |
| BIOL 2250 | Survey of Modern Therapeutics | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:00-10:20am | Donald Christian |
| BIOL 2270 | Advanced Biochemistry | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:30-3:50pm | Art Salomon & Juan Alfonzo |
| BIOL 2300 | Biomolecular Interactions: Health, Disease, and Drug design | Mondays, 3:00- 5:30pm | Nicolas Fawzi |
| BIOL 2560 | Advanced Virology | Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays, 9:00-9:50am | Amanda Jamieson & Sanghyun Lee |
| BIOL 2860 | Molecular Mechanisms of Disease | Mondays & Wednesdays, 1:00-2:30pm | Thomas Bartnikas |
| ENGN 1945 | Immunoengineering | Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 1:00-1:50pm | Theresa Raimondo |
| ENGN 2910S | Cancer Nanotechnology | Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 1:00-1:50pm | Ian Wong |
| PHP 2120 | Introduction to Methods in Epidemiologic Research | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10:30-11:50am | Mark Lurie |
| PHP 2510 | Principles of Biostatistics and Data Analysis | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:00-10:20am | Peter Lipman |
| PHP 2560 | Statistical Programming with R | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:30-3:50pm | Ying Ma |
| IMMUN 307QC | Cancer Immunology | Harvard Cross-Registration | Kai Wucherpfennig |
Spring Semester 2026
| Code | Title | Schedule | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIOL 1250 | Host-microbiome Interactions in Health and Disease | Thursdays, 2:00 - 4:30pm | Peter Belenky & Shipra Vaishnava |
| BIOL 1295 | Fundamentals of Cancer Immunotherapy | Mondays & Wednesdays, 3:00-4:20pm | Sean Lawler |
| BIOL 1550 | Parasitism: Biology and Disease | Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays, 11:00-11:50am | Christopher de Graffenried |
| BIOL 1555 | Methods in Informatics and Data Science for Health | Mondays, 3:00-5:30pm | Elizabeth Chen & Neil Sarkar |
| BIOL 1580 | Metabolism Across Biological Scales: Integrative Physiology and Pathobiology | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:30-3:50pm | Karthi Chellappa |
| BIOL 1600 | Development of Vaccines to Infectious Diseases | Mondays & Wednesdays, 3:00-4:20pm | Shipra Vaishnava & Lalit Beura |
| BIOL 1820 | Environmental Health and Disease | TBA | Jessica Plavicki |
| BIOL 2025 | Foundations in Statistics for Biology and Medicine | Mondays & Wednesdays, 8:30-9:50am | Susannah Colt |
| BIOL 2040 | Bioimaging | Mondays, 2:00-5:00pm | Geoffrey Williams |
| BIOL 2167 | In Vitro Models for Disease | Mondays, 10:00am-12:30pm | Jacquelyn Schell |
| BIOL 2170 | Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology | Monday, Wednesday, & Fridays, 10:00-11:30am | Diana Horrigan |
| BIOL 2350 | The Biology of Aging | Thursdays, 2:00-5:00pm | Marc Tatar & Nicola Neretti |
| BIOL 2525 | Pathogenomics: Analysis, Interpretation and Applications of Microbial Genomes | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10:30-11:50am | Katherine Siddle & Christina Cuomo |
| BIOL 2540 | Molecular Genetics | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:30-3:50pm | Yu-Wen Alvin Huang |
| BIOL 2865 | Toxicology | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:00-2:20pm | Daniel Spade |
| CSCI 2820 | Algorithmic Foundations of Computational Biology | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:30-3:50pm | Sorin Istrail |
| CLPS 0950 | Introduction to Programming | Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays, 10:00-10:50am | TBD |
| CLPS 1480B | Cognitive Aging and Dementia | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:00-2:20pm | Elena Festa |
| NEUR 1020 | Principles of Neurobiology | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:00-10:20am | Carlos Aizenman |
| NEUR 1540 | Neurobiology of Learning and Memory | Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays, 10:30-11:50am | Monica Linden |