VCU Molecular Education

Education and Training

The Molecular Diagnostics Division offers a two-week Molecular Pathology Practicum once every month at their clinical diagnostics laboratory on the MCV Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University; teaching knowledge and skills.

Our two week Practicum provides you with instruction, skills development and hands-on experience in clinical laboratory molecular techniques. Topics and techniques include:

  • Methods to isolate DNA from clinical samples
  • Preparation of nucleic acid probe
  • Molecular hybridization
  • Polymerase chain reaction
  • Southern hybridization analysis.
We emphasize the use of these techniques in oncology, microbiology, and genetics.

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