Advanced Biomedicine 30 credits
About the course
The course integrates four biomedical research areas - infection and immunology, cancer and bioinformatics, metabolism and metabolic diseases, and neuroscience and diseases of the nervous system. Specific examples illustrate principles and mechanisms that regulate normal cell and organ functions, as well as molecular processes that lead to dysfunction and disease.
The course also includes sessions covering literature searching, ethical aspects of research and scientific work, epidemiology and biostatistics, as well as bioinformatics.
The course is divided into following six modules:
Infection and immunology, 6,5 hp
Cancer and bioinformatics, 7 hp
Metabolism and metabolic diseases, 7 hp
Neuroscience and diseases of the nervous system, 7 hp
Epidemiology and biostatistics, 2 hp
Mini-symposium, 0,5 hp