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Advanced Courses

These HMX courses are designed to get busy professionals up to speed on the latest advances in medical science.

Cancer Genomics and Precision Oncology covers key topics related to the intersection between cancer and genetics, and demonstrates how that knowledge is being applied to cancer diagnosis and treatment. Topics covered include cancer mutations, cancer gene functions, tumor sequencing, cancer therapeutics, active immunotherapies, and more.

Clinical Drug Development: Clinical Trial Methodologies and Innovations covers how drugs are developed clinically and about the advances happening in this field that are ultimately helping to improve the treatment and prevention of disease.

Drug Delivery: Approaches and Technologies for Delivering Therapeutics covers advances in drug delivery systems, approaches, and technologies, and demonstrates how improved drug delivery can improve patient experiences and outcomes.

Drug Discovery: Approaches to Discovering and Designing Different Therapeutic Modalities covers the exploration of various drug modalities, including small molecules, cell therapies, and protein and nucleic acid therapeutics, and provides learners with the tools to navigate the foundational and cutting-edge methodologies in developing novel therapeutics.

Drug Discovery and Development: Overview of the End-to-End Therapeutic Development Pipeline covers advances in drug discovery and development and how new therapeutics are developed. Participants will learn about drug discovery and how this occurs for different drug modalities, while gaining insight into clinical drug development and how an investigational therapeutic is assessed for safety and efficacy in humans.

Genetic Testing and Sequencing Technologies covers current genetic testing approaches and sequencing technologies, with a look at how improved testing can move health care forward. Topics covered include clinical genetic testing approaches, sequencing technologies, and emerging areas like DNA methlyation testing, long read sequencing, and more.

Gene Therapy explores recent advances in gene therapy and the implications for patient care. Participants will learn the fundamental concepts of gene therapy, including the different modalities, critical terminology, and necessary components, while gaining an understanding of the key differences between ex vivo and in vivo gene therapies, including their unique uses, delivery methods, and challenges.

Immuno-oncology helps participants understand how the immune system is being harnessed for cutting-edge cancer treatments such as checkpoint blockade and CAR T cell therapy.

Novel Therapies for Chronic Inflammation, Autoimmunity, and Allergy explores how advanced knowledge of the immune system is enabling cutting-edge treatments for chronic inflammation and related diseases. Topics covered include the immunology of inflammatory disease, anti-cytokine therapies, and therapies that target immune cells, migration, and signaling.

Nucleic Acid Therapeutics explores how nucleic acid therapeutics can be used to treat, prevent, and cure diseases.

Vaccines and Viral Immunology covers cutting-edge developments in the creation of vaccines to protect against viral infections. Topics covered include viral pathogenesis, invasion and replication, evasion mechanisms of specific viruses, and types of vaccines.

We also offer two Essentials courses, Genetics Essentials and Pharmacology Essentials. These courses are useful as a streamlined introduction and/or as preparation for the advanced courses. It is not recommended to take both an Essentials and a Fundamentals course on the same topic, as there is overlap between the corresponding Fundamentals and Essentials courses. You can read more about the Fundamentals courses below.

Short Courses

HMX Short Courses feature targeted lessons on the latest medical science information and advancements to keep learners up to date.

AI in Medicine: Foundations and Applications in Medical Practice and Research: explores the technical foundations of AI, including supervised and self-supervised learning and generative modeling.

AI in Medicine: Biomedical Signal Interpretation introduces key ideas and approaches behind AI interpretation of biomedical signals, highlighting techniques that can directly analyze data to uncover intricate patterns.

AI in Medicine: Medical Image Interpretation covers key concepts and the evolving impact of AI in medical image interpretation.

AI in Medicine: Natural Language Processing covers recent advances in artificial intelligence that are transforming the use of natural language processing.

AI in Medicine: Unlocking Precision Medicine through Omics and AI explores how omics and AI are transforming the path to precision medicine.

Advances in Immunological Therapeutics – Vol 1 (2023 advances) provides an overview of innovative immunological therapies approved by the FDA from 2021 through 2023 for the treatment of a number of chronic diseases.

Allergy and Asthma: Immunological Principles and Therapeutics: Learn about the immunological principles of allergic diseases, including asthma, food allergies, and atopic dermatitis, and explore how these conditions can be treated and prevented.

Immune Tolerance focuses on the fundamental properties of our immune system and its ability to respond to pathogens as well as defects to these mechanisms that can cause various conditions such as autoimmunity, chronic inflammatory diseases, or allergies.

Advances in Genetic Medicines: Approved Therapies in CRISPR, Gene Therapies, and Oligos dives into the mechanisms of action and exciting applications of new FDA-approved genetic medicines.

Biomarkers in Drug Development: Classification and Applications explores the different FDA categories of biomarkers and discover how they are applied in drug development and patient care.

Fundamental Courses

HMX Fundamentals courses provide an in-depth overview of foundational topics in medical science.

Immunology covers principles that are important for understanding innate and adaptive immunological responses. Topics covered include innate immunity and inflammation, microbial recognition and responses, antibodies, lymphocyte development and diversity, T cell activation by antigens, T cell-dependent B cell responses, helper T cells, cytotoxic T cells, failures of the immune system, and novel immune therapies.

Genetics provides an overview of key concepts behind the evolving fields of human genetics, genomics, and precision medicine. Topics covered include the central dogma and genetic variation, Mendelian inheritance of disease, chromosomal aberrations, the genetics of cancer, common complex traits, human population genetics, genome sequencing and editing, and pharmacogenomics.

Pharmacology provides a basis for understanding how drugs and other therapeutics are used in the treatment and prevention of diseases and disorders. Topics covered include drug classes and nomenclature, pharmacokinetics, targets of drug action, pharmacodynamics, drug toxicity, and drug discovery and development.

Biochemistry focuses on the foundational principles and themes in biochemistry, spanning from the molecular up to the whole organism, with a focus on how chemical processes intersect with human disease. Topics covered include the rules of energy, how energy is harnessed, how energy is transformed, cellular specialization, compartmentalization of biochemical pathways, and the chemistry of life.

Physiology covers principles that are important for understanding multiple organ systems, showing how this knowledge comes into play in patient care. Topics covered include partial pressure, movement of body fluids, flow through tubes, compliance, supply and demand, transmural pressure, dynamic and steady state conditions, acid–base, homeostasis, and exercise physiology.

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