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Biomedical Sciences, Graduate Certificate

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Program Overview

The Graduate Certificate in Biomedical Sciences exposes you to biomedical sciences to help you prepare for professional biomedical schools and begin your path toward tackling the toughest diseases. You can choose from a wide array of courses in the areas of anatomy and physiology; biochemical principles and metabolic pathways; microbiology, immunology, and infection; and embryology, cell biology and development. The certificate includes an option to take up to three credit hours of BIOL 6901: Mentored Non-Thesis Laboratory Research providing one-on-one work with a faculty member in an area of interest.

Program Contacts:

Christine Richardson, Ph.D., Program Co-Director
C.Richardson@charlotte.edu
704-687-5465

Bao-Hua Song, Ph.D., Program Co-Director
bsong5@charlotte.edu
704-687-8670

Biomedical Sciences, Graduate Certificate at a Glance

The Graduate Certificate in Biomedical Sciences offered by the Department of Biological Sciences (DBS) will provide students with core competencies or exposure to areas of study in the biomedical sciences to prepare them for professional biomedical schools including but not limited to medical, veterinary, and dental schools. In addition certificate students will be able to transfer credits into the departmental M.S. or Ph.D. in Biology programs should they modify their career goals. Certificate students will choose from a number of course offerings that will expose them to broad areas of anatomy and physiology; biochemical principles and metabolic pathways; microbiology, immunology, and infection; embryology, cell biology, and development. Students will have the opportunity to take up to 3 credit hours of BIOL 6901 Mentored Non-Thesis Laboratory Research providing one-on-one work with a faculty member in an area of interest. Requests for related courses and substitutions may be approved at the discretion of the Certificate Director and Graduate Programs Director.

delivery
On-Campus
credit hours
15 Credit Hours
admits
Fall, Spring
application deadlines
March 1 (Fall Priority) July 1 (Fall Final), October 1 (Spring Priority) November 15 (Spring Final)

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