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 2023
| Code | Title | Schedule | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIOL 0470 | Genetics | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10:30 - 11:50am | Mark Johnson & Erica Larschan |
| BIOL 1290 | Cancer Biology | Mondays & Wednesdays, 3:00-4:20pm | Anatoly Zhitkovich |
| BIOL 1520 | Innate Immunity | Mondays & Wednesdays, 8:30-9:50am | Laurent Brossay |
| BIOL 1565 | 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 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 2270 | Advanced Biochemistry | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:30-3:50pm | George Lisi & Alexandra Deaconescu |
| BIOL 2300 | Biomolecular Interactions: Health, Disease, and Drug design | Mondays, 3:00- 5:30pm | Nicolas Fawzi |
| BIOL 2310 | Developmental Biology | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:00-10:20am | Kristi Wharton |
| BIOL 2560 | Advanced Virology | Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays, 9:00-9:50am | Sanghyun Lee & Amanda Jamieson |
| BIOL 2860 | Molecular Mechanisms of Disease | Mondays & Wednesdays, 1:00-2:30pm | Thomas Bartnikas |
| ENGN 2910S | Cancer Nanotechnology | Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11:00-11:50am | 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 | Shira Dunsiger |
| PHP 2560 | Statistical Programming with R | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:30-3:50pm | Alice Paul |
| IMMUN 307QC | Cancer Immunology | Harvard Cross-Registration | Kai Wucherpfennig |
Spring Semester 2024
| Code | Title | Schedule | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIOL 1100 | Cell Physiology & Biophysics | Mondays, 3:00-5:30pm | Diana Horrigan & Anita Zimmerman |
| BIOL 1120 | Biomaterials | Thursdays, 4:00 - 6:30pm | Yu-Ting Dingle |
| BIOL 1250 | Host-microbiome Interactions in Health and Disease | Thursdays, 2:00 - 4:30pm | Peter Belenky & Shipra Vaishnava |
| 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 1600 | Development of Vaccines to Infectious Diseases | Mondays & Wednesdays, 3:00-4:20pm | Lalit Beura |
| BIOL 1820 | Environmental Health and Disease | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10:30-11:50am | Jessica Plavicki |
| BIOL 2040 | Ultrastructure/Bioimaging | Mondays, 2:00-5:00pm | Geoffrey Williams |
| BIOL 2350 | The Biology of Aging | Thursdays, 2:00-5:00pm | John Sedivy & Nicola Neretti |
| BIOL 2540 | Molecular Genetics | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:30-3:50pm | Erica Larschan & Alvin Huang |
| BIOL 2545 | Human Genetics and Genomics | Wednesdays, 3:00-5:30pm | Eric Morrow |
| BIOL 2865 | Toxicology | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:00-2:20pm | Daniel Spade |
| CSCI 2820 | Advanced 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 |