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Program requirements for the Specialist Program
The Specialist program requires 14.0-15.5 credits, depending on the options selected.
First Year
- BIO120H1 and BIO130H1
- (CHM135H1 and CHM136H1) or CHM151Y1
- (MAT135H1 and MAT136H1) or MAT137Y1 or MAT157Y1
First or Second Year:
Second Year
- LMP200H1 Pathobiology of the Cell 24L/12T (Coordinator: Doug Templeton and Jeff Lee)
- BCH210H1
- BIO230H1
- BIO260H1 or HMB265H1
- CHM220H1
- CHM247H1 or CHM249H1
- PSL300H1 and PSL301H1
- STA288H1, or STA220H1 or BIO220H1
Third Year
- LMP310H1 Foundations of Pathobiology 24L/12T (Coordinator: Myron Cybulsky, Felix Leung, and Sonya MacParland)
- LMP320H1 Pathobiology of Stem Cells 24L/12T (Coordinator: Sunit Das, Amy Wong and Scott Yuzwa)
- LMP330H1 Genetic and Computational Modeling in Human Development and Disease 24L,12T (Coordinator: David Irwin, Karim Mekhail and Bo Wang)
- BCH311H1
- BCH370H1
At least one option is required:
- Option A: Immunology (IMM341H1 and IMM351H1)
- Option B: Microbiology (MGY377H1 and MGY378H1)
- Option C: Anatomy (ANA300Y1)
- Option D: Metabolism and Signaling (PSL425H1 and PCL386H1)
- Option E: Research (LMP305Y1: Pathobiology Research Analysis and Project 24L/100P Coordinators: J Lee and S Smith)
If you take the research project LMP305Y1, you still need to take an additional option of A-D from the list.
Fourth Year
At least four of:
- LMP405Y1 Project in Pathobiology 154P (Coordinator: Michal Opas)
- LMP410H1 Pathobiology of Neurodegenerative Disease 24L (Coordinators: Gerold Schmitt-Ulms)
- LMP415H1 Forensic Pathobiology 24L (Coordinators: Maggie Bellis and Jayantha Herath)
- LMP420H1 Cancer Pathogenesis 24L/12T (Coordinators: George Charames and Paul Hamel)
- LMP430H1 Metabolic disorders 24L/12T (Coordinators: Hoon-Ki Sung, Jennifer Taher and Libin Yuan)
- LMP440H1 Mechanisms in Host-Microbe Interactions 24L (Coordinator: Stephen Girardin and Jeremy Mogridge)
- LMP450H1 Organogenesis in Health and Disease 24L/12T (Coordinator: Michael Laflamme, Shinichiro Ogawa, and Karun Singh)
- LMP460H1 Pathobiology of the Cardiovascular System 24L (Coordinator: Michelle Bendeck)
If you take the research project LMP405Y1, you still need to take three additional courses from the list.