Curriculum | Program in Molecular Biophysics | Johns Hopkins University

PMB students come from a range of undergraduate disciplines, including biology, genetics, chemistry, physics, engineering, and math. Ideally, applicants will have taken biology, general chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, physics, biochemistry or molecular biology, and calculus. Applicants lacking one or more of these courses often take additional courses or tutorials to fill in any deficiencies. Biophysics draws from physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, and computer science. Our curriculum is correspondingly broad but also rigorous. Five required courses form the core of the PMB curriculum. In addition, students take one required elective in their second year, based on their interests and thesis topic. Students have the option to take more than one such elective. The biophysics laboratory modules train students in the methods of biophysics using direct hand-on experiments using state-of-the-art instrumentation. The Proteins and Nucleic Acids courses expose students

PMB students come from a range of undergraduate disciplines, including biology, genetics, chemistry, physics, engineering, and math. Ideally, applicants will have taken biology, general chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, physics, biochemistry or molecular biology, and calculus. Applicants lacking one or more of these courses often take additional courses or tutorials to fill in any deficiencies. Biophysics draws from physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, and computer science. Our curriculum is correspondingly broad but also rigorous. Five required courses form the core of th