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Mentoring and Student Support

Extensive mentoring and student support occurs in many of the required activities listed above, e.g., the Fall Welcome Dinner & New-student Orientation, and the Monthly TSGP Meetings.  However, there are many other sources of mentoring and support.  For example, there is academic and career advising by the Graduate Program Committee throughout the program, as well as research and career advising by thesis mentors, and extensive peer-to-peer mentoring as well.  There are career panels and ad hoc lunches and dinners in which current and past students advise students who are less experienc

Elective Courses

Brown is famous for its outstanding curriculum and the competence and devotion of its teachers, as well as for its close-knit, personalized, collegial environment.  Consistent with this reputation, the Therapeutic Sciences PhD program provides access for its students to numerous exciting and varied courses.  Here are a few examples of the many possible elective courses that are not on the list of therapeutics-related courses above:

Additional Requirements

  • Monthly TSGP Meetings -- a combination of data club, journal club, and career development activities
  • Attendance at monthly TSGP seminars, which also have optional lunches with the speakers
  • Teaching assistantship -- one course in either the fall or spring semester of the second year; foreign students must obtain certification from the Center for Language Studies (English for International Teaching Assistants) before they can serve as teaching assistants.
  • Presentation of thesis research in at least one scientific conference

Basic Requirements

  • BIOL 2250, Survey of Modern Therapeutics (Year 1, Semester 1)
  • BIOL 2170, Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology (Year 1, Semester 2)
  • Practical Statistics Module (2 weeks in January of Year 1, between Semesters 1 and 2)
  • 3 Therapeutics-related Elective Courses (taken any year) from the following list:
  1. BIOL 2410 Current Topics in Signal Transduction
  2. BIOL 2300 Biomolecular Interactions: Health, Disease and Drug Design
  3. BIOL 2865, Toxicology
  4. BIOL 2260 Physiological Pharmacology