Curriculum

Required Courses

• IND 431 Foundations in Modern Biology I (5 credit hours, fall course)
• IND 432 Foundations in Modern Biology II (5 credit hours, spring course)
• PHP 403 Human Cell Physiology (4 credit hours, fall course)
• PHP 404 Principles of Pharmacology (4 credit hours, spring course)

• PHP 405 Effective Scientific Communication (2 credit hours, spring course)
• IND 501 Ethics in Research (1 credit hour, fall course)
• PHP 502 Seminar (1 credit hour/semester, fall/spring course, total of 4 credits required)

Approved Elective Courses (minimum 5 credit hours)

• IND 447/PHP 447 Signal Transduction (4 credit hours, spring course)
• IND 426 Science Communication for Diverse Audiences (2 credit hours, fall course)
• PHP 550 Ion Channels and Disease (2 credit hours, spring course)
• MBI 473 Immunology (4 credit hours, fall course)
• NSC 525 Biology of Neurological Diseases (3 credit hours, spring course)
• BST 463 Introduction to Biostatistics (3 credit hours, fall course)

• PTH 507 Cancer Biology (3 credit hours, spring course)
• PTH 509 Pathways to Human Disease I (4 credit hours, fall course)
• PTH 510 Cell Biology of Human Disease (4 credit hours, spring course)
• ​MBI 403 Drug Discovery (2 credit hours, spring course)
• CVS 401 Cardiovascular Biology and Disease (3 credit hours, fall course)
• PHP 467 Statistical Rigor and Data Analysis (1 credit hour, summer course)
   

Students may petition the graduate committee to approve alternative science courses for elective credit.