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Systems Biology

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Systems Biology brings concepts and skills from biochemistry, biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, statistics, and computer science to current problems in health, evolution, biotechnology, and agriculture. Graduates are prepared to apply knowledge across disciplinary boundaries to improve the quality of human life.

Major

Systems Biology

The Bachelor of Science in Systems Biology is designed to train students in the theoretical/computational tools and experimental methods necessary to understand living organisms as systems of closely interacting parts of increasing complexity (genes, proteins, cells, tissues, organs).

Things to note:

  • Only 1 of 3 such programs in the U.S.!

career paths

  • Genetics & Molecular Biology 
  • Pharmaceutical Sciences 
  • Biomedical Engineering 
  • Computational Biology 
  • Biomedical Sciences 
  • Precision Medicine 
  • Synthetic Biology 
  • Biotechnology 
  • Bioinformatics 
  • Microbiology
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