Biomedical Science Translational Research (Gr. Cert.) (15 credits)
Offered by: Pharmacology and Therapeutics (Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences)
Program credit weight: 15
Program Description
The Graduate Certificate in Biomedical Science Translational Research is an introduction to relevant clinical aspects of translating scientific discovery as a means of bridging the gap between research and application in clinical settings, while promoting future collaboration among scientists, clinicians and clinician-scientists while promoting future collaboration. The program includes clinical mentorship.
Note: For information about Fall 2025 and Winter 2026 course offerings, please check back on May 8, 2025. Until then, the "Terms offered" field will appear blank for most courses while the class schedule is being finalized.
Required Courses (12 credits)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| FMED 525 | Foundations of Translational Science. | 3 |
Foundations of Translational Science. Terms offered: Winter 2026 An overview of multidisciplinary research that bridges significant gaps between basic, clinical medicine and public policy that enables a translation of knowledge to practice. | ||
| PHAR 522D1 | Fundamentals of Disease Therapy. | 3 |
Fundamentals of Disease Therapy. Terms offered: Fall 2025 Basic physiology and pathology, including a macro-level overview of normal physiology and pathophysiology of selected organs. | ||
| PHAR 522D2 | Fundamentals of Disease Therapy. | 3 |
Fundamentals of Disease Therapy. Terms offered: Winter 2026 See course description in PHAR 522D1. | ||
| PHAR 524 | Clinical Mentorship. | 3 |
Clinical Mentorship. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Interaction with clinicians and clinician scientists in the field of medicine and health sciences, focusing on understanding disease from their perspective. | ||
Complementary Courses (3 credits)
3 credits from:
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| BMDE 655 | Biomedical Clinical Trials - Medical Devices. | 3 |
Biomedical Clinical Trials - Medical Devices. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course will train biomedical engineers to understand the clinical and business aspects of transferring a medical device idea into a commercial product. This course provides an overview of the pre‐clinical and clinical testing of medical devices, clinical trials, reimbursement systems, market analysis, sales models, and business models, as pertaining to medical devices. This course will also cover the design of randomized trials, including statistical principles, hypothesis postulating, bias minimization, and randomization methods. | ||
| EPIB 507 | Biostats for Health Sciences. | 3 |
Biostats for Health Sciences. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Basic principles of statistical inference applicable to clinical, epidemiologic, and other health research. Topics include: methods of describing data, statistical inference for means, statistical inference for proportions, non-parametric statistics, correlation and introduction to linear regression. | ||
| EXMD 617 | Workshop in Clinical Trials 1. | 1 |
Workshop in Clinical Trials 1. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Intensive day-long workshop discussing Industrial/Academic/Governmental interactions in the design, testing and approval of drugs. | ||
| EXMD 618 | Workshop in Clinical Trials 2. | 1 |
Workshop in Clinical Trials 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Intensive day-long workshop discussing the role of the physician in drug testing. | ||
| EXMD 619 | Workshop in Clinical Trials 3. | 1 |
Workshop in Clinical Trials 3. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Intensive day-long workshop discussing the pharmacoeconomics of drug design and testing. | ||
| EXMD 620 | Clinical Trials and Research 1. | 1 |
Clinical Trials and Research 1. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Intensive day-long workshop discussing a topical subject or recent advance relevant to clinical research and the conduct of clinical trials. | ||
| EXMD 633 | Clinical Aspects of Research in Respiratory Diseases. | 3 |
Clinical Aspects of Research in Respiratory Diseases. Terms offered: Winter 2026 Clinical aspects, epidemiology and burden of major respiratory conditions; key concepts of clinical and epidemiologic research in respiratory diseases. Specific conditions addressed include asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis, tuberculosis, pneumonia, adult respiratory distress syndrome, interstitial and pulmonary vascular diseases. | ||
| EXMD 640 | Experimental Medicine Topic 1. | 3 |
Experimental Medicine Topic 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Study, through guided reading, visits, practicals, assignments, of an elected and approved topic of importance in medical science. | ||
| PHAR 508 | Drug Discovery and Development 3. | 3 |
Drug Discovery and Development 3. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. The design of biologically-relevant drug screens for molecular targets in a cell, tissue, and in vivo setting. Explore the use of stem cells and tissue-based disease models for the understanding of disease and for drug discovery. Situate modern pharmacology into broader medical and societal issues such as personalized medicine and the ethics associated with research. | ||
| PPHS 529 | Global Environmental Health and Burden of Disease. | 3 |
Global Environmental Health and Burden of Disease. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course presents the grand challenges in global health from environmental and occupational risks along with the multi-disciplinary methods used to identify, control, and prevent them. It will introduce students to knowledge and skills in core disciplines of environmental health and approaches to environmental risk recognition, control and prevention in a global context. | ||