| Week |
Course Content |
| Week 1 |
Course Introduction: Alfred Nobel |
| Week 2 |
Novel therapy against parasites: William C. Campbell, Satoshi Ōmura, and Tu Youyou
Hacking the viruses: Hausen, Barré-Sinoussi, and Montagnier
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| Week 3 |
Pioneers of modern genetics: Barbara McClintock and Joshua Lederberg |
| Week 4 |
9/28 Teachers Day (holiday) |
| Week 5 |
RNA interference: Fire and Mello
MicroRNA: Ambros and Ruvkun
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| Week 6 |
From mRNA biology to vaccines: Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman |
| Week 7 |
DNA Structure: Watson, Crick, and Rosalind Franklin |
| Week 8 |
10/26 Adjusted holiday
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| Week 9 |
Learning and Memory: Eric Kandell |
| Week 10 |
Telomere and telomerase: Blackburn, Greider, Szostak |
| Week 11 |
Twice honored in Chemistry: Frederick Sanger and Karl Barry Sharpless |
| Week 12 |
Spatial Navigation: John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser |
| Week 13 |
Innate immunity and the role of dendritic cells in adaptive immunity: Beutler, Hoffmann, and Steinman
Treg: Brunkow, Ramsdell, and Sakaguchi
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| Week 14 |
Visual Processing: David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel |
| Week 15 |
Decoding the biological clock: Jeffrey Cornnor Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Warren Young |
| Week 16 |
Hemispheric Specialization: Roger Sperry |
self-directed learning |
   01.Participation in professional forums, lectures, and corporate sharing sessions related to industry-government-academia-research exchange activities.    02.Viewing multimedia materials related to industry and academia.
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