Molecular Basis of Disease

Catalog description

The course integrates basic science knowledge obtained by students in the first year of graduate school with mechanisms of disease progression. The course consists of five modules taught by the basic science faculty in the Division of Research of the Department of Pathology. Lectures cover 1) what is known about the disease from a clinical perspective; 2) unanswered clinical questions that need to be addressed from a basic science perspective; 3) what is known about the basic mechanisms of disease initiation and progression.