Graduate education in the sciences and engineering rarely offers the training and experiences that fully prepare graduates to enter directly into non-academic research and leadership positions. The Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Bioinnovation at Tulane University challenges this paradigm by cultivating in its students the ability to develop clinically-relevant biomedical technologies that have the potential to evolve into marketable products. Participating fellows benefit from and expand upon an environment of translational research at Tulane that spans the School of Science & Engineering (SSE), School of Medicine (SOM) and School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (SPHTM). Simultaneous collaborations with the Business and Law Schools, industry partners and the FDA provide fellows with a strong foundation in entrepreneurship and regulation. This program was initiated in 2012 by an NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award.
Training within this program emphasizes bioinnovation, which we define as the development and progression to the marketplace of clinically relevant biomedical technologies and devices.
Course ID | Title | Credits |
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Quantitative Fundamentals (choose two courses) | ||
BIOS 6040 | Intermediate Biostatistics | 3 |
BIOS 7080 | Design of Experiments | 3 |
CENG 6450 | Applied Biochemistry I | 3 |
EPID 6910 | 3 | |
FINE 7140 | Venture Cap & Private Equity | 3 |
GBCH 7250 | Biomed Stats & Data Analysis | 2 |
MATH 6470 | Analy Methods Appl Math | 3 |
MATH 7360 | Data Analysis | 3 |
Biological Systems (choose two courses) | ||
BMEN 6030 | Anatomy & Physio for Engr | 3 |
BMEN 6070 | Quant Physio Lec | 3 |
BMEN 6260 | Molec Princ Funct Biomatr | 3 |
BMEN 6400 | Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering | 3 |
BMEN 6430 | Vascular Bioengineering | 3 |
BMSP 6070 | Advanced Cell Biology | 3 |
BMSP 7770 | Systems Biology | 3 |
CELL 6750 | Cell Biology | 3 |
CENG 6770 | Advances In Biotechnolog | 3 |
NSCI 6310 | Cellular Neuroscience | 3 |
TRMD 6170 | Immunology | 3 |
Modeling and Transport Phenomena (choose two courses) | ||
BMEN 6330 | Advanced Biofluid Mech | 3 |
BMEN 6420 | Transport in Cells and Organs | 3 |
BMEN 6790 | Design Studio | 3 |
BMEN 6820 | Math Analysis Bio Systms | 3 |
COSC 6100 | Data Visualization | 3 |
COSC 6200 | Large Scale Computation | 3 |
COSC 6600 | Comput Model Biomed Sys | 4 |
MATH 7350 | Scientific Computing I | 3 |
Entrepreneurship (choose three courses) | ||
4LAW 5410 | Intellectual Property | 3 |
MGMT 7210 | Mgmt of Tech & Innovatn | 3 |
SCEN 6000 | Entrepreneurship Eng & Biosci | 3 |
Other Requirements | ||
SCEN 7010 | Bioinnovation Internship | 6 |
SCEN 7020 | Bioinnovation Research | 3 |