Center for Integrated Bioinformatics

School Of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems

       Drexel University

Course Information

The goal of the bioinformatics graduate curriculum is to develop the next generation of the interdisciplinary workforce for solving computational, statistics and informatics related problems in pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. The program focuses on the collection and analysis of large scale high throughput data on molecular profiles of living systems in health and disease.  The curriculum addresses the need in pharmacology and biotech for highly skilled individuals who are capable in analyzing high throughput biomedical data. The curriculum transforms this interest into a more formal academic training in the form of a professional masters and doctoral programs.

Participant Qualifications: Program is open to qualified graduate students with computer science, engineering, physics and chemistry backgrounds. Students with biology/life sciences background will be admitted on case to case basis (based on their background in calculus, differential equations, matrix algebra and computer languages).

FALL QUARTER: 12 credits

BMES 501 Medical Sciences 1 (3)

BMES 510 Biomedical Statistics (4)

BMES 672 Biosimulation 1 (3)

WINTER QUARTER: 10.5 credits 

BMES 502 Medical Sciences II (3)

BMES 543 Quantitative System Biology (4.5)

BMES 673 Biosimulation 2 (3)

SPRING QUARTER: 13.5 credits

BMES 544 Genome Information Engineering (4.5)

BMES 515 Experimental Design in BIOMED Res (3)

BMES 604 Pharmacology (3)

BMES 898 MS thesis (3)

SUMMER QUARTER: 11 credits 

BMES 680 Advanced Bioinformatics (5)

BMES 545 Biosystem Modeling (3) 

BMES 898 MS thesis (3)