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). *Indicates top five most popular electives taken by CMB students over the past 6 years. Notes about whether the subject is offered online or in-person are subject to change. See the Course Search & Enroll application in MyUW for the most up-to-date information.
Elective Courses
| wdt_ID | Course Number | Course Name | Credits | Offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | BIOCHEM 601* | Protein and Enzyme Structure and Function | 2 | Fall |
| 3 | BIOCHEM / BOTANY 621 | Plant Biochemistry | 3 | Fall (odd years) |
| 4 | BIOCHEM / PHMCOL-M / ZOOLOGY 630* | Cellular Signal Transduction Mechanisms | 3 | Fall |
| 5 | B M E / CBE 510 | Introduction to Tissue Engineering | 3 | Fall (even years) |
| 6 | B M E 545 | Engineering Extracellular Matrices | 3 | Spring |
| 7 | B M E 556 | Systems Biology: Mammalian Signaling Networks | 3 | Fall, Spring |
| 8 | B M I 826 | Clinical Research Informatics | 1-3 | Spring |
| 9 | B M I / STAT 877 | Statistical Methods in Molecular Biology | 3 | Spring (even years) |
| 10 | BIOCHEM / BOTANY / GENETICS 840 | Regulatory Mechanisms in Plant Development | 3 | NOT AVAILABLE FOR 2022-2023 |
| 11 | CRB 610 | Fundamentals of Mammalian Embryology | 2 | Fall, Spring |
| 12 | CRB 640 | Fundamentals of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology | 3 | Spring |
| 13 | CRB 650 | Molecular and Cellular Organogenesis | 3 | Spring |
| 14 | CRB / MEDICINE 701 | Cell Signaling and Human Disease | 1 | Spring |
| 15 | B M E / CBE 520 | Stem Cell Bioengineering | 3 | Fall |
| 17 | B M E / CBE 783 | Design of Biological Molecules | 3 | Spring |
| 18 | BIOCHEM / CHEM 665 | Biophysical Chemistry | 4 | Fall, Spring |
| 19 | GENETICS 631 | Plant Genetics | 2 | Fall (odd years) |
| 20 | GENETICS 633 | Population Genetics | 3 | Fall |
| 22 | GENETICS 885* | Advanced Genomic and Proteomic Analysis | 3 | Fall (even years) |
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| 24 | GENETICS / HORT 550 | Molecular Approaches for Potential Crop Improvement | 3 | Spring |
| 26 | MICROBIO / M M & I 740 | Mechanisms of Microbial Pathogenesis | 3 | Fall |
| 27 | M M & I 750 | Host-Parasite Relationships in Vertebrate Viral Disease | 3 | Spring (even years) |
| 28 | MED PHYS 671 | Targeted Radionuclide Therapy Physics | 1-3 | Fall |
| 29 | MICROBIO / GENETICS 607 | Advanced Microbial Genetics | 3 | Spring |
| 30 | MICRIOBIO 625 | Advanced Microbial Physiology | 3 | Spring |
| 31 | MICROBIO / BMOLCHEM 668 | Microbiology at Atomic Resolution | 3 | Spring (even years) |
| 33 | BIOCHEM / NUTR SCI 619 | Advanced Nutrition: Intermediary Metabolism of Macronutrients | 3 | Spring |
| 34 | ONCOLOGY 675 | Advanced or Special Topics in Cancer Research | 1-3 | Fall/Spring (not offered for Spring 2023) |
| 35 | PATH-BIO 675 | General Pathology for Biomedical Scientists | 3 | Fall |
| 36 | PATH 807 | Immunopathology: The Immune System in Health and Disease | 2 | Spring (even years) |
| 37 | PATH 751 | Cellular and Molecular Biology of Aging | 3 | Fall |
| 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 / HORT / STAT 571* | Statistical Methods for Bioscience I | 4 | Fall |
| 41 | ZOOLOGY 604 | Computer-Based Gene and Disease/Disorder Research Lab | 2 | Spring |
| 42 | BMOLCHEM 675 | From Mutations to Mechanisms (section 2) | 2 | Fall |
| 43 | B M I / 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 | B M I / COMP SCI 576 | Biostatistics and Medical Informatics | 3 | Fall |
| 47 | BIOCHEM 570 | Computational Modeling of Biological Systems | 3 | Fall |
| 48 | BIOCHEM / B M I / MATH / BMOLCHEM 609 | Mathematical Methods For Systems Biology | 3 | Spring |
| 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 |
| 53 | NTP 670 | Stem Cells and the Central Nervous System | 2-3 | Fall |
| 54 | B M E / CRB 670 | Biology of Heart Disease and Regeneration | 3 | Fall |
| 55 | M M & I 677 | Immune Systems Genomics | 1-3 | Fall |
| 56 | GENETICS / CHEM 626 | Genomic Science | 2 | Spring |
| 57 | NEURODPT 610 | Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience | 4 | Fall |
| Course Number | Course Name | Credits | Offered |