Each semester, Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences offers a variety of courses for PhD candidates. Consult your graduate advisor or our administration to ensure that the courses you choose are appropriate for your academic track.

For a full list of courses, please log in with your Kerberos ID and password to the Vilcek Student Community.

Core Curriculum

The common core curriculum serves the stated goals of the program, to provide rigorous, deep training in discipline, to emphasize foundational quantitative methodology, to promote effective communication of results, and to contextualize expertise within the full spectrum of biomedicine in society.

BMSC-GA 4532 A PhD Experience

BMSC-GA 4451 Data Science and Statistics in R

BMSC-GA 2000 Scientific Integrity and Responsible Conduct in Research

BMSC-GA 1997 Communicating Science

Elective Courses

We meet the curricular needs of our diverse disciplines through a flexible menu of elective courses that trainees can use to build a personalized curriculum. The flexibility in elective courses meets the growing trend of inter- and trans-disciplinary science and encourages trainees to merge quantitative and qualitative content to rigorously train in their chosen fields. Mentors will work with all first-year students to recommend a curriculum that aligns not only with their interests, but with their previous academic record, experience, and expectations of the discipline. Maintaining flexible course requirements also allows the faculty to adjust course offerings to meet the needs of their changing field.

BMSC-GA 4452 Applied Sequencing Informatics

BMSC-GA 2004 Molecular Mechanisms in Biology

BMSC-GA 2005 Cellular Neuroscience

BMSC-GA 2210 Molecular Virology

BMSC-GA 2213 Genetics and Genomics

BMSC-GA 2306 Intro to Immunology

BMSC-GA 2308 Adv Immunology

BMSC-GA 2318 Basic Mechanisms of Oncology and Tumor Immunology

BMSC-GA 2604 Bioinformatics

BMSC-GA 2610 Developmental and Stem Cell Systems

BMSC-GA 4409 Adv Magnetic Resonance Imaging

BMSC-CA 4413 Mammalian stem cells in disease and regeneration

BMSC-GA 4420 Neuroanatomy

BMSC-GA 4427 Practical Magnetic Resonance Image I

BMSC-GA 4449 Methods in Quantitative Biology

BMSC-GA 4455 Introduction to Health Informatics

BMSC-GA 4463 Genetic Dissection of Circuits

BMSC-GA 4468 Fundamentals in Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis

BMSC-GA 4485 Adv Topics in Cell and Molecular Neuroscience

BMSC-GA 4493 Deep Learning in Medicine

BMSC-GA 4494 Adv Regression Modelling

BMSC-GA 4496 Adv Epidemiologic Methods

BMSC-GA 4499 Evaluation Methods for Predictive Risk Models

BMSC-GA 4511 Principles of Population Health Science

BMSC-GA 4515 Ion channels and transporters

BMSC-GA 4517 Analytical techniques for health care delivery science

BMSC-GA 4529 Longitudinal trajectory modeling

EHSC-GA 2044-001 Intro to Epidemiology

EHSC-GA 2336 Intro to Statistical Inference I/II