Courses

Required Courses

Course #	Course Name	Credits
BMS 501	Cell Biology (fall)	4
BMS 502	Essentials of Genetics and Genomics (fall)	3
BMS 503	Principles of Biochemistry (fall)	4
ORB 500	Cranio. Dev, Tissue Eng & Oral (fall)	2
ORB 510	Saliva and the Oral Microbiome (spring)	4
ORB 519	Critical Analysis of Literature in Oral Biology (fall)	1
ORB 520	Critical Analysis of Literature in Oral Biology (spring)	1
OS 518 STA 525 STA 527	Statistical Methods Oral Science(spring) ... or Stat. for Bioinformatics (spring) ... or Intro. To Medical Statistics (fall)	4 3 4
ORB 651	Research, Laboratory Rotations	3-6
ORB 653	Dissertation Guidance	1

Course #	Course Name	Credits
RCR/CITI	Responsible Conduct of Research/CITI Training	0

Course #	Course Name	Credits
RPG 603/604	Basics in Grantsmanship (fall/spring)	1

Course #	Course Name	Credits
ORB 545	Dynamics of Bone (fall)	2
BCH 507	Protein Structure and Function	2
BCH 508	Gene Expression	2
BCH 519	Bioinformatics and Computational Biology	3
BCH 607	DNA Replication and Repair	2
BE 520	Biomaterials in Regenerative Medicine	3
BE 555	Biomechanics and Mechanobiology	3
BIO 501	Advanced Biological Chemistry	4
BIO 502	Advanced Cell and Developmental Biology	4
BIO 550	Human Evolutionary Genomics (fall)	3
MIC 406/506	Composition and Function of the Human Microbiome	2
MIC 512	Fundamentals of Immunology	2
MIC 513	Eukaryotic Pathogens	2
MIC 515	Virology	2
MIC 516	Bacteriology	2
NRS 520	Neuroscience I	4
NRS 524	Neuroscience III (by permission of instructor)	3
PGY 505	Cell and Membrane Physiology	4
PMY 512	Principles of Pharmacology II	4
PMY 516	Graduate Pharmacology II	5
PMY 526	Trends in Pharmacological Sciences (TIPS)	2
PMY 527	Translational Pharmacology	2
STA 525	Statistics for Bioinformatics	2
STB 531	Protein Expression, Purification, and Crystallization	3