8BKG34 · 6 credits · Basic level (G2X) · Medicinsk biologi
Immunology
Active · next start HT 2026
90%
passed the latest regular sitting
34WE · 27 Oct 2025 · 48 students
84%
passed the regular sittings, all sittings over the last 5 years
34WE · 212 students
25%
Harder than 25% of courses at basic level
Compared with 874 courses at the same level, ordinary exams over the last three academic years. 100 students.
Part of 1 programme
Other module
34WE Written examination
- 5
- 4
- 3
- U
Main rounds
84% passed · 212 students
- 90%48
- 90%52
- 82%49
- 75%28
- 77%35
Later rounds
59% passed · 17 students
- 40%5
- 71%7
- 60%5
- Pass a later round: 59% (17 students), compared with 84% (212 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get 4 or 5: 58% (229 students)
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Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
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- 33%3
- 100%2
Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Other module
34CE Compulsory elements
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 214 students
- 100%44
- 100%48
- 100%47
- 100%34
- 100%41
Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
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About the course
Aim
Knowledge and understandingOn completion of the course, the student shall be able to:
- Describe the structure of the innate immune system and how this is initiated, regulated and effectuated in the body’s defence against different microorganisms.
- Describe the significance of different inflammatory cells and mediators.
- Describe how the body’s adaptive immunity is regulated, activated and interacts with the innate immune system in the event of different infections.
- Describe the role of the immune system in different diseases and medical problems such as autoimmune disorders, allergies, wound healing and the use of implants.
- Explain how to use the mechanisms of the immune system for medical treatment of infections.
- Describe how to use biomedical, experimental and clinical laboratory methods that are based on the interaction between antigens and antibodies.
Skills and abilitiesOn completion of the course, the student shall be able to:
- Apply biomedical laboratory methodology with reference to basic immunological techniques.
- Document the results of work with immunological laboratory techniques and describe these orally and in writing.
Judgement ability and approachOn completion of the course, the student shall be able to:
- Critically appraise, process and communicate popular science and academic literature within immunology.
Content
During the course, the student will study basic mechanisms used by the human body to defend against microbes, the role of the immune system in other conditions, and how we can use immunological mechanisms to fight infections and to achieve a specific detection of molecules in the laboratory. More specifically, this includes inflammatory mediators (e.g. the complement system and cytokines), inflammatory cells (e.g. phagocytes), the inflammatory process, including the development and structure of the immune system (e.g. antibodies, antibody formation, antigen-presenting cells, B-cells and T-cells), different types of vaccine and adjuvant, diseases and problems caused by the immune system (allergic reactions, autoimmune disorders, healing and problems with implants), as well as immunological methods and principles. The course encompasses the fields of immunology, medical microbiology, virology, cell biology, pathology, physiology and biochemistry.
- Examiner
- Maria Jenmalm
- Main field of study
- Medicinsk biologi