Spring 2027

Molecular Mechanisms of Disease

Molecular Mechanisms of Disease covers neuroscience, cancer biology, growth factor/matrix biology, and immunology. Students learn grant writing, peer review, experimental design, and giving talks.

offering recorded2 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 David EvansIsmail ZaitounRobert Nickells

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.73 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Understand how to write a proposal (Grant Workmanship).

  • Develop the ability to critically evaluate research papers and grants (Peer Reviewing).

  • Understand how to design an experiment to test a novel hypothesis.

  • Understand and learn how to give a successful talk.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Declared in Cellular and Molecular Pathology graduate program

  • Declared in Cellular and Molecular Pathology graduate program
PATH 809

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  • Declared in Cellular and Molecular Pathology graduate program

Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.73 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.73 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

DAVID EVANS is recorded teaching in Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

ISMAIL ZAITOUN is recorded teaching in Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

ROBERT NICKELLS is recorded teaching in Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.73 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Neuroscience
  • Cancer biology
  • Growth factor/matrix biology
  • Immunology

Skills

  • Writing grant proposals
  • Critically evaluating research papers and grants
  • Designing experiments to test novel hypotheses
  • Giving scientific talks

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Selected offering source records
PATH 809 · Spring 2027

Molecular Mechanisms of Disease

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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