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In addition to core courses, students must take elective courses to total 10 credits (the ethics course does not count towards the credits total). See the Course Requirements section of the handbook for more information. Syllabi for some courses can be found in the Student Resources Box folder (only accessible by CMB students). See the Course Search & Enroll application in MyUW for the most up-to-date information.
Interested in taking a graduate-level course not listed among the electives? Students must obtain approval before taking the course if they wish for it to count as an elective. Email the CMB Office with the course syllabus and a statement explaining how the course will benefit your research and learning. The Curriculum Committee will evaluate the submitted materials for approval.
Students are welcome to take classes that are not approved as electives, but the courses will not count towards the CMB requirements.
Elective Courses
| wdt_ID | Course Number | Course Name | Credits | Offered |
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| 2 | BIOCHEM 601 | Protein and Enzyme Structure and Function | 2 | Fall |
| 3 | BIOCHEM / BOTANY 621 | Plant Biochemistry | 3 | Fall (odd years) |
| 5 | B M E 510 | Introduction to Tissue Engineering | 3 | Fall, Summer |
| 6 | B M E 545 | Engineering Extracellular Matrices | 3 | Spring |
| 8 | BMI 773 | Clinical Research Informatics | 3 | Spring (even years) |
| 12 | CRB 640 | Fundamentals of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology | 3 | Fall |
| 13 | CRB 720 | Experimental Approaches to Development and Organogenesis: Methods, Techniques and Insights | 3 | Spring |
| 14 | CRB / MEDICINE 701 | Cell Signaling and Human Disease | 1 | Spring |
| 15 | B M E 520 | Stem Cell Bioengineering | 3 | Spring |
| 18 | CHEM 665 | Biophysical Chemistry | 4 | Spring |
| 19 | BIOCHEM / GENETICS 631 | Plant Genetics & Development | 3 | Fall |
| 20 | GENETICS 633 | Population Genetics | 3 | Spring (even years) |
| 22 | GENETICS 885 | Advanced Genomic and Proteomic Analysis | 3 | Fall (even years) |
| 24 | PlantSci 550 | Molecular Approaches for Potential Crop Improvement | 3 | Spring |
| 26 | M M & I 740 | Mechanisms of Microbial Pathogenesis | 3 | Fall |
| 27 | M M & I 750 | Host-Parasite Relationships in Vertebrate Viral Disease | 3 | Spring (odd years) |
| 31 | MICROBIO / BMOLCHEM 668 | Microbiology at Atomic Resolution | 3 | Spring (odd years) |
| 33 | BIOCHEM / NUTR SCI 619 | Advanced Nutrition: Intermediary Metabolism of Macronutrients | 3 | Spring |
| 34 | ONCOLOGY 675 | Emerging Techniques in Protein and Genetic Engineering | 1-3 | Summer |
| 36 | PATH 807 | Immunopathology: The Immune System in Health and Disease | 2 | Spring (even years) |
| 37 | PATH 751 | Biology of Aging | 2 | Fall (even years) |
| 38 | PATH 803 | Pathogenesis of Major Human Disease | 3 | Fall |
| 39 | BOTANY / ENTOM / PL PATH 505 | Plant-Microbe Interactions: Molecular and Ecological Aspects | 3 | Spring |
| 40 | F&W ECOL / STAT 571 | Statistical Methods for Bioscience I | 4 | Fall |
| 43 | BMI/ STAT 541 | Introduction to Biostatistics | 3 | Fall |
| 44 | M M & I 528 | Immunology | 3 | Fall |
| 45 | OPHTHALM 750 | Ocular Diseases of the Mammalian Vision System | 3 | Spring |
| 46 | BMI / COMP SCI 576 | Introduction to Bioinformatics | 3 | Fall |
| 48 | BIOCHEM / B M I / MATH / BMOLCHEM 609 | Mathematical Methods For Systems Biology | 3 | Spring 2027 |
| 49 | MICROBIO 657 | Bioinformatics for Microbiologists | 3 | Spring |
| 50 | NEURODPT / NTP / PSYCH 611 | Systems Neuroscience | 4 | Spring |
| 51 | ONCOLOGY 778 | Bioinformatics for Biologists | 3 | Spring |
| 52 | BOTANY 563 | Phylogenetic Analysis of Molecular Data | 3 | Spring |
| 55 | M M & I 677 | Molecular Medicine | 1-3 | Fall |
| 57 | NEURODPT/ NTP 610 | Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience | 4 | Fall |
| 58 | MICROBIO 626 | Microbial and Cellular Metabolomics | 3 | Fall |
| 59 | CRB 670 | Biology of Cardiac Function and Disease | 3 | Fall |
| 60 | BMI/ COMP SCI 775 | Computational Network Biology | 3 | Fall |
| 61 | BIOCHEM 645 | Molecular Control of Metabolism and Metabolic Disease | 3 | Fall |
| 62 | Genetics 662 | Cancer Genetics | 3 | Spring, Odd Summer (Summer 2025) |
| 64 | BMOLCHEM 700 | Practical Biophysics | 3 | Fall |
| 65 | CRB 725 | Introduction to Optical Imaging for Cell Biology | 2 | Summer 2026 |
| 66 | BMI/ STAT 641 | Statistical Methods for Clinical Trials | 3 | Fall |
| 67 | Genetics 652 | Genetics and Physiology of Adult Stem Cells | 3 | Spring 2027 |
| 68 | BMI/ STAT 877 | Biostatistics & Med Informatic 877 | 3 | Summer 2027 |
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