Coursework

VBST Coursework
Course Title Description
PCOL 530 (required) Pharmacology and Biology of the Vessel Wall Vascular disease and use of new therapeutics for cardiovascular diseases, atherosclerosis, thrombosis, hypertension
     
MDCH 507 (elective) Drug Discovery, Design, Development Drug development: target identification, screening, clinical trials, FDA evaluation;
     
NEUS 567 (elective) Creating Better Solutions for Persons with Dementia Foundations in drug discovery in dementia and AD clinical trials
     
  Making Medicines: The Process of Drug Development An interactive online course designed to examine fundamental concepts and techniques of drug development.
     
BPS 594 (elective) Topics in Biopharmaceutical Sciences: Drug Metabolism Drug metabolism and pharmaco-kinetic studies in drug discovery and development
     
BHIS 437 (elective) Review of Systems Data Types in a Health Care Organization How big dataset is transformed into information and then converted into knowledge via integrated algorithms

The VBST-TP is funded by training grant (T32 HL144459) from the National, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI).