This is a third-year core course offered by the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UVA. Dr. Dolatshahi has been teaching this course since Fall 2020.

Fall 2023 Learning Guide/Syllabus

Fall 2023 Schedule

Systems analysis plays a critical role in interpreting biological data, designing medical equipment, and understanding complex biological processes. Systems problems are emerging as central to all areas of biomedicine—including but not limited to cancer, immunology, infectious disease, musculoskeletal disorders, and cardiology. The overarching goal of this How to denoise an MRI image? How to model blood circulation? How to analyze ECG? course is to promote quantitative thinking from a systems perspective. To this end, we will learn analytical approaches for modeling signals and systems and apply them to solve real world biomedical problems, such as predicting tumor growth, analyzing ECG signals, and processing medical images. We will learn the central systems thinking underlying various flavors of biomedical systems ranging from electrical and mechanical to chemical and molecular systems. Once you see the resemblance between these systems, then you can get creative and apply what you learned to your favorite biomedical problems in novel ways!

This is a graduate-level course offered to graduate students in the Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology (MIC) program in biomedical sciences, directed by Dr. Melanie Rutkowski, where Dr. Dolatshahi teaches the “Integrative Systems Biology” module since Fall 2021- present. The goal of this class is to integrate the knowledge that was gained during the MICR8200/8202, with more focus upon learning techniques, critically reading papers, and communicating findings in papers through written documents.