Principles of Anatomy

BMS 547X (2-6). Cr. 4 Course will examine gross anatomy and neuroanatomy of human, dog, and laboratory animals. Laboratories will include cadaveric dissections of canine and rodents, virtual dissections of human specimens, and case studies. 2 lectures/week, 3 two-hour labs/week.

Professor: Dr. Diana Peterson

Principles of Physiology

BMS 538X (4-0). Cr. 4. Neurophysiology, endocrine and reproductive physiology, muscle physiology, cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, and digestive physiology, and regulation of body fluid. 4 lectures/week.

Professor: Dr. Walter Hsu

Cell Biology

BMS 575 (3-0). Cr. 3. Cell Structure and function, including: universal features of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells., types of utilization and conversion of energy, genetic control of cell shape and functionality, internal organization of cells, communication between cells and their environment. 3 lectures/week.

Principles of Microbiology

VMPM 5XX (3-0). Cr. 3. This course includes a section each on bacteriology, virology and immunology. Introduction to microbiology, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, and protozoans. Infection of systems and pathogenesis, diagnostic microbiology, vaccinology, and humoral and cell-mediated immunology. 3 lectures/week.

Professor: Dr. Ken Platt

Principles of Toxicology

TOX 501 (3-0). Cr. 3. Principles of toxicology governing; fate, and effects of toxicants on living systems. Includes toxicokinetics and foreign compound metabolism relative to toxification or detoxification. Fundamentals of foreign compound effects on metabolism, physiology, and morphology of different cell types, tissues, and organ systems. 3 lectures/week.

Principles of Pharmacology

BMS 539X (4-0). Cr. 4. General principles of drug actions: drug disposition; drugs acting on, cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, gastrointestinal, and endocrine systems; anti-inflammatory and antibiotic drugs; anti-cancer drugs; anesthetics, CNS stimulants; lifestyle drugs; drug addiction, abuse and dependence; drugs in sport; drugs for obesity; biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy; drug development.

Professor: Dr. Richard Martin

Principles of Pathology

VPTH 5XXX (3-0). Cr. 3. Introduction to pathology and profession. Cell injury, tissue death, vascular changes and thrombosis, inflammation, disturbances of cell growth and congenital defects, neoplasia, and system pathology case scenarios. 3 lectures/week.

Professor: Dr. Joseph Haynes

Methods in Biomedical Sciences

BMS 502X (0-9). Cr. 3. This new core lab course is to teach students the state-of-art methods and techniques in biomedical sciences. Techniques offered in this course will be highly applicable to pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries and academic research settings. Students will learn most of these methods and techniques by doing bench work to gain hands-on experience. The principles and concept behind these techniques will be emphasized throughout the labs.

Students will learn both basic and advanced research techniques in various laboratory modules. These include:

Analytical research lab module: the calculation of molarity, use of re-pipettes, balance, pH meter, sonicator, centrifuge, ultracentrifuge; gas chromatography, high-pressure liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry, good laboratory practice (GLP).

Pharamcology and behavioral research lab module: animal handling, blood sampling, drug administration techniques; behavioral pharmacology testing; pharmacokinetic data analysis, human cardiovascular and pulmonary physiology testing; human urinalysis

Pathology research lab module: necropsy procedures, tissue sampling, fixation, sectioning, staining, immunohistochemistry, microscopy

Biochemical and molecular biological research lab module: Protein quantification using BCA & ELISA, Western blot protein analysis, determination of cytochrome P-450 enzyme activity, real time PCR RNA analysis and Southern blot DNA analysis

Microbiology/Immunology research lab module: basic cell culture and bacteriology lab techniques, including aseptic technique, inoculation, culture, isolation, quantification, and identification of bacteria, transformation, transduction, and conjugation of bacteria; basic virology lab techniques, including infection of cell culture using IBR virus; cell harvesting and freezing; detection of virus using serum-virus neutralization (SVN) technique; determination of cytopathic effect of virus; quantification of viruses; video demonstration of the production of polyclonal and monclonal antibodies and lab exercise on the production of monoclonal antibody by practicing hybridoma technology and clone testing; ELISA, cell-mediated immunity techniques, including determination of T-lymphocytes activation using flow cytometry.

Professor: Dr. Walter Hsu

Principles of Epidemiology

VDPAM 522 (3-0). Cr. 3. Study design concepts central to epidemiology, basic measures of disease frequency and risk concepts central to epidemiology, basic concepts of establishing causation central to epidemiology. Basic concepts of simple data analysis central to epidemiology. Basic concepts associated with sample size determination. Basic concepts of biostatistics. 3 lectures/week.

Professor: Dr. Annette O'Connor

Creative Component

BMS 599 Cr. 2. SS. Prereq: Enrollment in BMS graduate program, and permission of instructor.

Creative component for non-thesis Master of Science degree. Students will prepare a written review, under the guidance of faculty on a selected current biomedical research topic in the manner of a short review publication. At the end of the semester, students will also make an oral presentation on the topic. The course will allow students to develop scientific writing and presentation skills along with creative insights into current biomedical research.