BIOL 395 - Selected Topics in Structural and Functional Biology

Credits: 3
When Offered: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.

Prerequisites: BIOL 220, junior standing and permission of the instructor.Topics include physiology, neurobiology, developmental biology and immunology. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.

Topic for Fall, 2009:

BIOL 395: Clinical Trials (3). Clinical trials of drugs and other medical therapies are the primary basis for evidence-based medical practice. Students learn to read and critically analyze the results of clinical trials through participation in a group research project. This research project examines the ways that industry, government, and academic trials differ by compiling the statistical findings from trials of statins and other classes of cholesterol-lowering drugs. Marsh