Advanced Immunology
Course Leader: Dr. Barbara Sherry
This one-semester course, held every 3 years, meets weekly for 1.5 hrs. It covers the current state of knowledge of immunology, with a focus on recent research advances. A previous course in immunology is a necessary prerequisite. The course is taught using “Immunobiology: 7th Edition The immune system in health and disease”, (Janeway’s Immunobiology), Murphy K, Travers P, Walport M, eds., Garland Science Publishing, New York, NY USA, 2007 to provide background information, plus readings of seminal papers from the recent biomedical literature which are presented by the graduate students. Topics covered include innate immunity, T-cell and B-cell development, antigen processing and presentation, immune regulation and tolerance, vaccine immunology and tumor immunology.
Upon completion of the course, the student should have an understanding of the current state of knowledge in immunology, and be able to read and evaluate current publications in the field.
Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Study Design
Course Leader: Dr. Martin Lesser
This is a one-semester course, held every third year, which meets for 2 hrs per week. A previous statistics course is desirable but not required. The course covers basic concepts in statistics, exploratory data analysis, estimation and confidence intervals and correlation and regression, management of large data sets, tools for data mining, cluster analysis and new analytic approaches, and basics of study design (sample size, power, case-control and cohort studies, design of laboratory studies).
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to design studies appropriately, analyze data, work productively with a biostatistician on complex analyses, and assess the appropriate use of statistics in published papers.
Current Topics in Translational Research
Course Leader: Dr. Ping Wang
This is a course that is held every third year. It consists of assigned preparatory reading related to four selected diseases, introductory discussions of the selected disorders led by faculty of The Graduate School of Molecular Medicine, lectures on the disorders by invited outside experts in the diseases and a discussion group meeting of the students with the invited lecturer. Typical diseases that are discussed are chronic lymphocytic leukemia, sepsis, metastatic cancer and Parkinson’s disease.
After completion of the course, the student should have a better understanding of the multiple components of any disease process that impact on the clinical presentation, including function/non-function of organ systems, tissues and cells and subcellular organelles.
The Elmezzi Graduate School of Molecular Medicine
