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 2020
| Code | Title | Schedule | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIOL 0470 | Genetics | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10:30 - 11:50am | Robert Reenan & Erica Larschan |
| BIOL 1110 | Topics in Signal Transduction | Wednesdays, 3:00-5:30pm | Elena Oancea |
| BIOL 1290 | Cancer Biology | Mondays & Wednesdays, 3:00-4:20pm | Anatoly Zhitkovich |
| BIOL 1465 | Human Population Genomics | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:00-2:20pm | Emilia Huerta-Sanchez |
| BIOL 1520 | Innate Immunity | Mondays & Wednesdays, 9:00-10:20am | Laurent Brossay |
| BIOL 1565 | Survey of Biomedical Informatics | Mondays, 3:30-5:00pm | Neil Sarkar |
| BIOL 1970A | Stem Cell Biology | Wednesdays, 2:00-4:30pm | Richard Freiman and Ashley Webb |
| BIOL 2050 | Biology of the Eukaryotic Cell | Tuesdays & Thurdays, 1:00-2:20pm |
Kenneth Miller & Susan Gerbi |
| 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 2560 | Virology | Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays, 9:00-9:50am | Amanda Jamieson |
| BIOL 2860 | Molecular Mechanisms of Disease (Pathology I) |
Mondays & Wednesdays, 1:00-2:30pm |
Tom Bartnikas |
| 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 | Shira Dunsiger |
| IMMUN 307QC | Cancer Immunology | Harvard Cross-Registration | Kai Wucherpfennig |
Spring Semester 2021
| Code | Title | Schedule | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIOL 0800 | Priniciples of Physiology | Monday, Wednesdays & Fridays, 10:00-10:50am | Chi-Ming Hai |
| BIOL 1100 | Cell Physiology & Biophysics | Mondays, 3:00-5:30pm | Diana Horrigan |
| BIOL 1120 | Biomaterials | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6:40 - 8:00pm | Jeffrey Scott |
| BIOL 1250 | Host-microbiome Interactions in Health and Disease | Thursdays, 2:30 - 5:30pm | Peter Belenky |
| BIOL 1550 | Biology of Emerging Microbial Diseases | Mondays, Wednesdays, & Fridays, 11:00-11:50am | Christopher de Graffenried |
| BIOL 1555 | Methods in Informatics and Data Science for Health | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10:30-11:50am | Elizabeth Chen |
| BIOL 1600 | Development of Vaccines to Infectious Diseases | Mondays & Wednesdays, 3:00-4:20pm | Shipra Vaishnava & Lalit Beura |
| BIOL 1810 | 21st Century Applications in Cell and Molecular Biology | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:00-10:20am | Michelle Dawson |
| BIOL 1820 | Environmental Health and Disease | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 10:30-11:50am | Jessica Plavicki & Kim Boekelheide |
| BIOL 2010 | Quantitative Approaches to Biology | Tuesdays, 10:00am-1:00pm | Nicola Neretti |
| BIOL 2040 | Ultrastructure/Bioimaging | Mondays, 2:00-5:00pm | Geoffrey Williams |
| BIOL 2350 | The Biology of Aging | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:00-3:20pm | John Sedivy & Stephen Helfand |
| BIOL 2540 | Molecular Genetics | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:30-3:50pm | Judith Bender & Erica Larschan |
| BIOL 2545 | Human Genetics and Genomics | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:00-10:20am | Eric Morrow |
| BIOL 2640 | Viral Immunology | Wednesdays & Fridays, TBA | Christine Biron |
| BIOL 2865 | Toxicology | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:00-2:20pm | Daniel Spade & Kim Boekelheide |
| CLPS 0950 | Introduction to Programming | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:00 - 2:20pm | Thomas Serre |
| 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, 11:00-11:50am | Monica Linden |
| NEUR 1740 | The Diseased Brain: Mechanisms of Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders | Mondays & Wednesdays, 8:30-9:50am | Justin Fallon |
| PHP 2620 | Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics | Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:00 - 10:20am | Zhijin Wu |
| ENGN 2910S | Cancer Nanotechnology | Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays, 1:00-1:50pm | Ian Wong |