Life Sciences Engineering 2024-25

Block "Core courses"

Courses
Language
Master 1
Master 2
Specialisations/Orientations
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
Genomics and bioinformatics
BIO-463 / Section SV
Bitbol, Luisier, Rougemont
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
Summer session
During the semester
4
Life Sciences engineering: genome to function
BIO-411 / Section SV
Gönczy, McCabe, Naef
EN
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
During the semester
4
Next-generation biomaterials
BIOENG-458 / Section SV
Persat, Tang
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
Summer session
Written
4

Group 1

Courses
Language
Master 1
Master 2
Specialisations/Orientations
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
Applied biomedical signal processing
EE-512 / Section EL
Lemay
EN
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Project: 2h
-
Winter session
Written
4
Applied biostatistics
MATH-493 / Section MA
Goldstein
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Molecular Health
Summer session
During the semester
5
Applied data analysis
CS-401 / Section SC
Brbic
EN
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Project: 2h
-
Winter session
Written
8
Applied probability & stochastic processes
MGT-484 / Section MTE
Cristi
EN
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
Written
4
Biomicroscopy I
MICRO-561 / Section SV
Altug
EN
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Biomedical Engineering
Winter session
Written
4
Dynamical system theory for engineers (Cours biennal)
COM-502 / Section SC
Thiran
EN
-
  • Lecture: 3h
  • Exercises: 1h
Summer session
Written
6
Image processing I
MICRO-511 / Section MT
Unser, Van De Ville
EN
  • Lecture: 3h
-
Winter session
Written
3
Machine learning
CS-433 / Section IN
Flammarion, Jaggi
EN
  • Lecture: 4h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Project: 2h
-
Winter session
Written
8

Group 2 : Options

Courses
Language
Master 1
Master 2
Specialisations/Orientations
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
Advanced bioengineering methods laboratory (The course is held in an amended format giving more freedom to students to learn plan and perform research)
BIOENG-444 / Section SV
Fantner, Guiducci, Radenovic
EN
-
  • Project: 4h
Summer session
During the semester
4
Basics in bioinstrumentation
BIOENG-421 / Section SV
Merten
EN
  • Lecture: 1h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Project: 2h
-
Winter session
During the semester
4
Bioimage informatics
BIO-410 / Section SV
Sage, Seitz
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Project: 2h
Summer session
Written
4
Biomechanics of the cardiovascular system
ME-481 / Section GM
Stergiopulos
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Biomedical Engineering
Summer session
Written
3
Biomechanics of the musculoskeletal system
ME-482 / Section GM
Pioletti
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Biomedical Engineering
Summer session
During the semester
5
Biomedical optics
BIOENG-445 / Section SV
Wagnières
EN
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Biomedical Engineering
Winter session
Oral
3
Biomicroscopy II
MICRO-562 / Section SV
Altug, Seitz
EN
-
  • Lecture: 1h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Project: 2h
Summer session
During the semester
4
Biophysics : physics of biological systems
PHYS-302 / Section PH
Rahi
EN
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
During the semester
4
Biophysics : physics of the cell
PHYS-301 / Section PH
Manley
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
Summer session
Written
3
Biostatistics
MATH-449 / Section MA
Stensrud
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
Summer session
Written
5
Brain-like computation and intelligence
NX-414 / Section NX
Mathis, Schrimpf
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
Summer session
Written
5
Cancer biology I
BIO-471 / Section SV
Lingner, Oricchio
EN
  • Lecture: 3h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Molecular Health
Winter session
During the semester
5
Cancer biology II
BIO-472 / Section SV
De Palma, Huelsken
EN
-
  • Lecture: 3h
  • Exercises: 2h
Summer session
During the semester
5
Causal thinking
MATH-352 / Section MA
Stensrud
EN
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
Written
5
Computational cell biology
BIOENG-455 / Section SV
Shillcock
EN
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
During the semester
4
Computational motor control
CS-432 / Section SV
Ijspeert
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
Summer session
Written
4
Computational neurosciences: biophysics
NX-450 / Section NX
Romani
EN
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
During the semester
5
Computational neurosciences: neuronal dynamics
NX-465 / Section NX
Gerstner
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
Summer session
Written
5
Computational optical imaging
MICRO-421 / Section MT
Psaltis
EN
-
  • Lecture: 3h
  • Exercises: 1h
Summer session
During the semester
4
Controlling behavior in animals and robots
BIOENG-456 / Section SV
Ramdya
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 3h
Summer session
During the semester
5
Deep learning
EE-559 / Section EL
Cavallaro
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
Summer session
During the semester
4
Deep learning in biomedicine (Pas donné en 2024-25)
CS-502 / Section IN
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Project: 2h
Summer session
During the semester
6
Deep reinforcement learning
CS-456 / Section IN
Gulcehre
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Project: 1h
Summer session
Written
6
Digital epidemiology
BIO-512 / Section SV
Salathé
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
Summer session
During the semester
4
Ethics for Life Sciences engineers
BIO-508 / Section SV
Tormey
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
Summer session
During the semester
2
Fundamentals of biomedical imaging
PHYS-438 / Section PH
Gruetter
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Biomedical Engineering
Summer session
Written
4
Fundamentals of biophotonics
BIO-443 / Section SV
Radenovic
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Biomedical Engineering
Summer session
During the semester
3
Fundamentals of biosensors and electronic biochips
EE-515 / Section EL
Guiducci
EN
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Biomedical Engineering
Winter session
Written
3
IGEM (Only a limited number of students will be selected based on their application file (max. 12). Participants of iGEM team will register on IS-Academia in BA6/MA3)
BIO-510 / Section SV
McCabe
EN
  • Lecture: 3h
  • Exercises: 3h
  • Project: 6h
-
Winter session
During the semester
12
IGEM lab (Inscription sur dossier d'application, merci de vous inscrire sur ISA qu'après avoir reçu l'accord de la section. iGEM lab can only be taken by students who validated iGEM as a bachelor project)
BIO-511 / Section SV
McCabe
EN
  • Project: 6h
  • Project: 6h
Winter/Summer session
During the semester
6
Image analysis and pattern recognition
EE-451 / Section EL
Bozorgtabar, Thiran
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Project: 2h
Summer session
During the semester
4
Image processing II
MICRO-512 / Section MT
Liebling, Sage, Unser, Van De Ville
EN
-
  • Lecture: 3h
Summer session
Written
3
Immunoengineering
BIOENG-399 / Section SV
Tang
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Molecular Health
Summer session
Written
4
Immunology - advances and therapeutic implications (pas donné en 2024-25)
BIO-479 / Section SV
EN
  • Lecture: 3h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Molecular Health
Winter session
Written
5
Infection biology (pas donné en 2024-25)
BIO-477 / Section SV
EN
-
  • Lecture: 3h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Molecular Health
Summer session
Written
5
Introduction to natural language processing
CS-431 / Section IN
Bosselut, Chappelier, Rajman
EN
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
Written
6
Lab immersion academic (outside EPFL)
BIO-504 / Section SV
Profs divers
EN
  • Project: 22h
  • Project: 22h
Winter/Summer session
During the semester
22
Lab immersion I
BIO-501 / Section SV
Profs divers
EN
  • Project: 8h
  • Project: 8h
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Molecular Health
Winter/Summer session
During the semester
8
Lab immersion II
BIO-502 / Section SV
Profs divers
EN
  • Project: 8h
  • Project: 8h
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Molecular Health
Winter/Summer session
During the semester
8
Lab immersion III
BIO-503 / Section SV
Profs divers
EN
  • Project: 12h
  • Project: 12h
Winter/Summer session
During the semester
12
Lab immersion in industry
BIO-506 / Section SV
Profs divers
EN
  • Project: 22h
  • Project: 22h
Winter/Summer session
During the semester
22
Lab on cell-free synthetic biology
EE-490(j) / Section EL
Maerkl
EN
  • Project: 4h
-
Winter session
During the semester
4
Linear models
MATH-341 / Section MA
Panaretos
EN
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
Written
5
Management of intellectual property (Special schedule. See the MTE website: https://go.epfl.ch/mte)
MGT-404 / Section MTE
Sahli
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Project: 1h
Summer session
Written
3
Mechanobiology: how mechanics regulate life
ME-480 / Section GM
Persat, Sakar
EN
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
During the semester
4
Methods: from disease models to therapy
BIOENG-518 / Section SV
Chrast, Knott, Pojer, Schneider, Seitz, Sordet-Dessimoz, Turcatti, Warot
EN
-
  • Lecture: 1h
  • Project: 3h
Summer session
Written
4
Methods: omics in biomedical research
BIOENG-519 / Section SV
Chrast, Garcia, Guex, Iseli, Mangeat, Pavlou, Pojer
EN
  • Lecture: 1h
  • Project: 3h
-
Winter session
Written
4
Micro/Nano robotics
ME-436 / Section GM
Sakar
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
Summer session
During the semester
3
Modern natural language processing
CS-552 / Section IN
Bosselut
EN
-
  • Lecture: 3h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Project: 2h
Summer session
During the semester
8
Molecular endocrinology: health and environment
BIO-450 / Section SV
Brisken
EN
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Molecular Health
Winter session
During the semester
4
Nanobiotechnology
CH-413 / Section CGC
Steinauer
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
Summer session
Written
3
Neural circuits of motivated behaviors
BIO-499 / Section SV
Kochubey, Schneggenburger
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
Summer session
Written
4
Neural interfaces
NX-422 / Section NX
Lacour, Shoaran
EN
  • Lecture: 4h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
During the semester
6
Neural signals and signal processing
NX-421 / Section NX
Micera, Van De Ville
EN
  • Lecture: 4h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
Written
6
Neuroscience
BIO-311 / Section SV
Ramdya
EN
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
During the semester
4
Neuroscience: behavior and cognition
BIO-483 / Section SV
Blanke, Sandi
EN
-
  • Lecture: 3h
  • Exercises: 2h
Summer session
Written
5
Neuroscience: cellular and circuit mechanisms
BIO-482 / Section SV
Crochet, Petersen
EN
  • Lecture: 3h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
During the semester
5
Neuroscience: from molecular mechanisms to disease
BIO-480 / Section SV
Gräff, Mahul Mellier, Schneider
EN
  • Lecture: 3h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
Written
5
New tools & research strategies in personalized health
BIO-491 / Section SV
Friedli, Trono
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Molecular Health
Summer session
During the semester
4
Nutrition: from molecules to health (For MSc students only)
BIO-441 / Section SV
Descombes, Hager, Rezzi
EN
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
  • Molecular Health
Winter session
During the semester
4
Pharmacology and pharmacokinetics
BIO-478 / Section SV
Firsov, Kellenberger
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
Summer session
Written
2
Physics of life
PHYS-468 / Section PH
Stahlberg
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
Summer session
Written
4
Planetary health
BIO-413 / Section SV
Banwell, Blokesch, D'Angelo, McKinney
EN
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
During the semester
4
Principles and applications of systems biology
ChE-411 / Section CGC
Hatzimanikatis
EN
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
Winter session
During the semester
3
Randomness and information in biological data
BIO-369 / Section SV
Bitbol
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
Summer session
Written
4
Regulatory, quality and clinical affairs
NX-451 / Section NX
Rochat
EN
-
  • Lecture: 1h
  • Exercises: 1h
Summer session
During the semester
2
Sensors in medical instrumentation
EE-511 / Section EL
Chételat, Ionescu
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
  • Biomedical Engineering
Summer session
Written
3
Single cell biology
BIOENG-420 / Section SV
D'Angelo, Deplancke
EN
-
  • Lecture: 3h
  • Molecular Health
Summer session
During the semester
4
Statistical physics of biomacromolecules (pas donné en 2024-25)
PHYS-441 / Section PH
EN
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
Oral
4
Statistics for data science
MATH-413 / Section MA
Chandak, Limnios
EN
-
  • Lecture: 4h
  • Exercises: 2h
Summer session
Written
8
Stem cells and organoids
BIO-447 / Section SV
Karthaus, Radtke, Suter
EN
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Molecular Health
Winter session
Written
3
Structural biology
BIO-315 / Section SV
Dal Peraro
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
  • Molecular Health
Summer session
During the semester
4
Structural mechanics for SV
ME-231(b) / Section SV
Fantner
EN
  • Lecture: 3h
  • Exercises: 1h
-
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Molecular Health
Winter session
Written
4
Synthetic biology
BIOENG-320 / Section SV
Barth
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
Summer session
Written
4
Systems neuroscience
NX-435 / Section NX
Mathis
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
Summer session
During the semester
4
Translational neuroengineering
NX-423 / Section NX
Blanke, Courtine, Hummel, Micera
EN
-
  • Lecture: 3h
  • Exercises: 3h
Summer session
Written
6
Trends in chemical biology and drug discovery
BIOENG-510 / Section SV
Correia, Thomä
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
Summer session
Written
4
Understanding statistics and experimental design (Pas donné en 2024-25)
BIO-449 / Section SV
EN
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
Written
4

Group 3

Courses
Language
Master 1
Master 2
Specialisations/Orientations
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
Industry internship (Minimum 8 weeks mandatory internship. Registration through the internship portal)
BIOENG-596 / Section SV
Profs divers
EN
  • Project: 320h
  • Project: 320h
Winter/Summer session
During the semester
8

Group 4

Courses
Language
Master 1
Master 2
Specialisations/Orientations
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
Scientific literature analysis in bioengineering (only one registration per student to a scientific thinking course)
BIO-467 / Section SV
Altug, Antanasijevic, Merten
EN
  • Lecture: 1h
  • Exercises: 3h
-
Winter session
During the semester
4
Scientific literature analysis in computational molecular biology (Only one registration per student to a scientific thinking course)
BIO-468 / Section SV
Barth, Dal Peraro
EN
  • Lecture: 1h
  • Exercises: 3h
-
Winter session
During the semester
4
Scientific literature analysis in neuroscience (Only one registration per student to a scientific thinking course)
BIOENG-451 / Section SV
La Manno
EN
  • Lecture: 1h
  • Exercises: 3h
-
Winter session
During the semester
4
Scientific project design in cell and developmental biology (only one registration per student to a scientific thinking course)
BIO-464 / Section SV
Gönczy, Oates
EN
  • Lecture: 1h
  • Exercises: 3h
-
Winter session
During the semester
4
Scientific project design in drug discovery (only one registration per student to a scientific thinking course)
BIO-494 / Section SV
Auwerx
EN
  • Lecture: 1h
  • Exercises: 3h
-
Winter session
During the semester
4
Scientific project design in integrative neurosciences (Pas donné en 2024-25. only one registration per student to a scientific thinking course)
BIO-493 / Section SV
EN
  • Lecture: 1h
  • Exercises: 3h
-
Winter session
During the semester
4
Scientific project design in translational oncology (only one registration per student to a scientific thinking course)
BIO-488 / Section SV
De Palma, Radtke
EN
  • Lecture: 1h
  • Exercises: 3h
-
Winter session
During the semester
4

Group 5

Courses
Language
Master 1
Master 2
Specialisations/Orientations
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
Concept to early-stage Drug and MedTech products
BIO-497 / Section SV
Deplancke, Ghisays, Maitra, Pojer
EN
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
During the semester
4
Entrepreneurship in food & nutrition science
BIO-498 / Section SV
Feige, Lê Bur, Van der Beek
EN
-
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
Summer session
During the semester
4
Entrepreneurship in life sciences
BIO-490 / Section SV
Merten
EN
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
During the semester
4
Innovation management
MGT-423 / Section MTE
Erden Özkol
EN
-
  • Lecture: 3h
Summer session
During the semester
4
Introduction to law and ethics
BIO-455 / Section SV
Hotz, Malbois
FR
  • Lecture: 2h
  • Exercises: 2h
-
Winter session
Oral
4

Groupe 6

Courses
Language
Master 1
Master 2
Specialisations/Orientations
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
HSS : Introduction to project
/ Section SHS
Divers enseignants
FR/EN
-
-
Winter session
3
HSS : Project
/ Section SHS
Divers enseignants
FR/EN
-
-
Summer session
3

Master project

Courses
Language
MP Autumn
MP Spring
Specialisations/Orientations
Exam
Credits / Coefficient
Master project in Life Sciences Engineering
BIO-597 / Section SV
Profs divers
EN
  • Project: 900h
  • Project: 900h
Winter/Summer session
Oral
30