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2 Electives are required<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Any graduate-level 1, 2 or 3-credit course, in any scientific discipline, will satisfy this requirement. Elective courses must total at least 4 credit hours.<\/p>\n

In addition to electives offered through PHCO, students often take electives offered by BIOC (Biochemistry and Biophysics<\/a>), CBPH (Cell Biology and Physiology<\/a>), NBIO (Neurobiology<\/a>), GNET (Genetics<\/a>), PATH (Pathology<\/a>). The specific electives that are offered usually vary from semester to semester.<\/p>\n

PHCO Elective Courses<\/h2>\n

Below is a list of electives that are offered through PHCO, but please check each semester to see which exact courses will be offered.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Class<\/th>\nName<\/th>\nTypically Taught<\/th>\n<\/tr><\/thead>\n
669<\/td>\nMacromolecular Crystallographic Methods<\/td>\nevery spring<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
728<\/td>\nNeuropharmacology of Alcohol and Substance Use<\/td>\nodd years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
733<\/td>\nDrug Discovery and Development<\/td>\nodd years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
737<\/td>\nTarget-based Anticancer Drug Discovery and Development<\/td>\neven years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
740<\/td>\nModule 1 PHCO 740 Phosphorylation Control<\/td>\nodd years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
741<\/td>\nModule (2)- PHCO 741 GTPases<\/td>\nodd years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
742<\/td>\nModule 3 \u2013\u00a0PHCO 742 Cell Cycle Control<\/td>\nodd years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
743<\/td>\nContemporary Topics in Cell Signaling: Signaling Networks<\/td>\neven years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
744<\/td>\nModule 2 BIOC\/PHCO 744 Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine<\/td>\neven years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
745<\/td>\nModule 1 PHCO 745 \u2013 Intercellular Signaling in Development & Disease<\/td>\neven years<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
749<\/td>\nGNET\/PHCO 749 \u2013 Practical RNA-SEQ<\/td>\nevery spring<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
750<\/td>\nModule 1 \u2013\u00a0PHCO 750 Proteomics Methods and Applications<\/td>\nevery fall<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2 Electives are required\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Any graduate-level 1, 2 or 3-credit course, in any scientific discipline, will satisfy this requirement. Elective courses must total at least 4 credit hours. In addition to electives offered through PHCO, students often take electives offered by BIOC (Biochemistry and Biophysics), CBPH (Cell Biology and Physiology), NBIO (Neurobiology), GNET (Genetics), PATH (Pathology). … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22429,"featured_media":0,"parent":2435,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-25599","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25599"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26616,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25599\/revisions\/26616"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/pharm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}