PHYSCI 121

Disease Mechanisms and Therapies

Physiological Science · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Designed for junior/senior Biochemistry and life sciences majors. Use of disease mechanisms as pedagogical tools to develop higher-order knowledge of basic scientific concepts. Integration of concepts from genetics, molecular and cell biology, physiology, and biochemistry to create molecular solutions to problem of inherited neuromuscular disease.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Fall 2025
Summer 2026

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Requisites: Chemistry 153A, and Life Sciences 2, 3, and 4 or 7A, 7B, and 7C.

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· "LIFESCI 3" is not in this catalog version
· "LIFESCI 4" is not in this catalog version

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

PHYSCI 121

CHEM 153ABiochemistry: Introduction to Structure, Enzymes, and Metabolism
- CHEM 14DOrganic Reactions and Pharmaceuticals
  - CHEM 14CStructure of Organic Molecules1 more beneath
- CHEM 30BOrganic Chemistry II: Reactivity, Synthesis, and Spectroscopy
  - CHEM 30AOrganic Chemistry I: Structure and Reactivity1 more beneath

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