Medical Biochemistry

0-2 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

Biochemistry is fundamental to understanding the underlying cause of diseases and their treatments. This didactic course will be an intensive course, covering many aspects of biochemistry including biomolecules and metabolism. This course will be approached from a medical perspective. The course is designed as a combination of lectures and practical computer-based exercises utilizing functionalities of web-based resources. The students will experience the effect of mutations and polymorphisms on the genes that are causative of the underlying disease in each metabolic pathway. The lectures will be presented as a series of case-studies. Most encountered clinical cases will form the core of the course. Aspects of Complementary and Integrative Medicine (CIM) approaches to health and disease states will be discussed. At the end of the course students will be able to understand these diseases from a biochemical, informatics, and integrative medicine perspective.