Courses

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