College of Health Professions, Nursing and Pharmacy

MS in PGx On Site Courses and Curriculum


REQUIRED COURSES – 25 credits required

Summer Semester

  • Biostatistics (1st half, online)- 3 credits*
  • Introduction to PGx (2nd half, on campus)- 2 credits
  • Human Genetics (2nd half, on campus)- 3 credits

Fall Semster

  • Pharmacology- 3 credits
  • Applied Pharmacogenomics- 3 credits
  • Bioinformatics (1st half, online)- 3 credits

Spring Semester

  • Advanced Molecular Biology-2 credits
  • Advanced Pharmacokinetics- 2 credits
  • Research Responsibility and Ethics (1st half, online)- 1credit
  • The Gene-Drug Pipeline- 3 credits
  • Elective credit

ELECTIVE COURSES - 6 credits required

  • Pharmacogenomics in Neurologic and Cardiovascular Disorders- 3 credits
  • Pharmacogenomics in Oncology- 2 credits 
  • Research and Innovative Practice Seminar- 1 credit 
  • Pharmacogenomics Laboratory 1 (2nd half, on campus)- 1 credit
  • Pharmacogenomics Laboratory 2- 2 credits
  • Pharmacogenomics Laboratory 3- 2 credits

Online courses are 7 weeks long in either the first or second half of the semester. 

*Students are not required to be on campus in Fort Wayne Indiana until the start of the second half of the summer semester which is typically early July.