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
  5. BIOL 2110 Drug and Gene Delivery
  6. BIOL 2010 Quantitative Approaches to Biology
  7. BIOL 2860 Molecular Mechanisms of Disease
  8. BIOL 1290 Cancer Biology
  9. BIOL 2145 Molecular Targets of Drug Discovery
  10. BIOL 2167 In Vitro Models of Disease
  11. BIOL 1070 Biotechnology and Global Health
  •  One additional elective course is to be selected by the student to match their research interests and/or career goals, and this elective is not required to be from the list of therapeutics-related courses, but may be if desired.  More than one elective is allowed, but not required.  Elective courses must have Program approval. Here are a few examples of the many possible elective courses that are not on the list above:

1. BIOL 2270 Advanced Biochemistry
2. BIOL 2030/2040 Advanced Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology
3. BIOL 1150 Stem Cell Engineering
4. CHEM 1230 Chemical Biology
5. BIOL 1120 Biomaterials

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