Students enjoy a wide range of interesting and unique courses, some including:

The biology department is located in Holroyd Hall, home of the Hugh and Nancy Devlin Center for Science and Technology. The facility is equipped with state-of-the-art labs, research spaces and resources such as:

The Peter M. DiBattiste, M.D., ’78 Collaborative Research (CORE) laboratory concentrates student-faculty research activity in a central location, fostering interaction and collaboration among students and faculty researchers. The CORE lab provides students with access to cutting-edge technologies, such as Illumina Next-Generation DNA Sequencing, and suports our hands-on, Lasallian student scientist training model. Each semester, faculty and 40+ students work in the CORE lab across a range of disciplines including:

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La Salle students have access to more than 120 clubs and organizations including:

• Biology club – La Salle University’s student-driven Biology Club organizes a range of activities including the Life Science Seminar Series, peer-mentoring, foosball tournaments, volunteer opportunities, pet adoptions, and much more.
• Student Association for STEM and Health Sciences – Students of La Salle from different backgrounds, diverse majors come together to attend conferences, engage in stimulating conversations at panel discussions, serve the community and primarily, mentor and support one another.
• Enactus – Enactus is a global nonprofit and community of student, academic, and business leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to transform lives. Members are dedicated to creating a better world while developing the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders and social innovators.
• Alpha Epsilon Delta chapter -is the National Health Preprofessional Honor Society dedicated to the encouragement and recognition of excellence in preprofessional health scholarship

Minors (six courses)

• Integrated Science, Business & Technology – The Integrated Science, Business, and Technology (ISBT) program is a unique, interdisciplinary major that explores science and technology through the lens of systems, design, innovation, and entrepreneurial practices. Students learn to collaborate and solve difficult problems by connecting expertise across multiple disciplines.
• Translational Science – Translational Science is an emergent, interdisciplinary field focused on translating basic science discoveries into diagnostics, therapeutics, and medical devices to address unmet healthcare needs. This bench-to-bedside approach requires critical thinking skills to see opportunities for innovation and to navigate complex biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry landscapes.

Concentrations (four courses)

• BioDesign – an emerging, integrated discipline drawing on design thinking, biology, engineering, and entrepreneurship to develop products and technologies that address unmet healthcare needs.
• Bioinformatics – an interdisciplinary field that uses software tools to acquire and analyze large complex biological data sets including whole genome DNA data.
• Bioethics – an examination of ethical issues that emerge from advances in biology that apply to research and medical practice
• Microbiology – the study of microorganisms – bacteria, viruses, archaea, fungi and protozoa – that covers biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, ecology, evolution and clinical pathology.

Related Majors

• Integrated, Science, Business and Technology (ISBT)
• Biochemistry
• Nursing