First-Year MBS Program
The first year of the MBS program provides a common educational experience for all students. At the end of this year, students have been exposed to a wide range of bioscience industry issues and activities. First-year students take a fixed set of business and science courses that provide basic backgrounds in business and management of bioscience industries, and bioethics. The first year technical courses include Molecular Biotechnology; Systems Biology; Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Applied Life Sciences; Computational Biology; Medical Diagnostics; Medical Devices; Pharmaceutical Discovery and Development; Bioprocess Engineering Principles and Biologics. These courses highlight specific industry applications and follow the format of lectures that meet once or twice per week with hands-on projects that occur regularly throughout the semester.
First-Year Course List
ALS 300 Molecular Biotechnology
ALS 301 Molecular Basis of Disease
ALS 330 Pharmaceutical Discovery
ALS 331 Bioprocess Engineering Principles
ALS 333 Pharmaceutical Development
ALS 341 Bioindustry Ethics and Society
ALS 350 Finance and Accounting Principles
ALS 352 Organizational Behavior
ALS 354 Bioscience Business Strategy
ALS 359 Introduction to Market Assessment and Market Strategy