Learning Outcome
Analyze how CRISPR can be used to optimize microbes for the food, health, and energy industries
Individual Course
CRISPR: Gene-Editing Applications
Course Length
8 weeks
7–10 hours per week
Featuring faculty from:
Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Enroll as Individual
Certificate Price:
$ 1,940
Apply by Sep 2, 2025
Apply NowEnroll as Individual
Certificate Price:
$ 1,940
Apply by Sep 2, 2025
Apply NowExplore the ways in which CRISPR is disrupting sectors across the economy with Harvard VPAL. Learn the fundamental principles of gene-editing.
With the potential to revolutionize agriculture and treat genetic diseases, CRISPR promises to create change in essential areas that were previously ignored within the disruptive tech.
The CRISPR: Gene-Editing Applications online short course from Harvard’s VPAL is an introduction to the Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) gene-editing technology, and its potential application across various industries.
This course provides you with an insight into the fundamental principles of gene-editing and how CRISPR functions as a gene-editing tool. During the eight weeks, you’ll be introduced to the significant ways in which CRISPR could be applied to healthcare, agriculture, food, and energy industries.
You’ll gain an understanding of the disruptive potential across multiple industries, as well as the ability to better communicate your company’s biotech innovations to decision makers.
The course will be delivered via Get Smarter. By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Instructor-Paced
Get Smarter
Learning Outcome
Recommend guidelines for an ethical use of CRISPR by considering the ethical implications CRISPR genetic manipulation raises as the technology is developed
Learning Outcome
Articulate the various ways in which CRISPR can be used to combat cancer
Faculty
Your Instructor
Hanan Dahche
Postdoctoral Fellow and Teaching Assistant at Harvard University
Your Instructor
Alain Viel
Director of Undergraduate Research and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology,Harvard University
About the certificate
Learn about CRISPR Cas9 gene-editing technology and earn an official premier certificate from Harvard’s Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning (VPAL), in association with HarvardX.
Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the course.
Your digital certificate will be issued in your legal name and couriered to you upon successful completion of the course, as per the stipulated requirements.