Investigations of Human Disease

Harvard HMS

This 4-week course will provide an in-depth analysis of recent advances in our understanding of human disease, as afforded by contemporary biomedical research in the basic and social sciences. Topics covered may include: developmental genetics and congenital birth defects, autoimmunity, complex human disease, genomics and bioinformatics, neurological disease, signal transduction, genomic technology, model organisms, cancer genetics, mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis, history of…