BME 7130

Core Concepts in Disease

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

Most diseases emerge due to a relative small number of biological effects, including mechanisms like infection, inflammation, neoplasia, genetic mutation, protein misfolding, and metabolic disregulation. Students learn about disease-state biology by focusing on these broad disease pathways. The course consists of several modules, each focused on one broad class of disease mechanism, and includes both a discussion of the underlying biology of the disease pathway as well as examples of specific diseases that involve those mechanisms. This course complements the training in fundamental normal-state biology students are already receiving by providing a mechanism-centered view of disease development.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: introductory biology.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: BME Ph.D. students.

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2024SP, 2023SP, 2022SP

When Offered Spring.

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