We provide an entry portal and a common first-year curriculum, equipping you with core knowledge to support your pursuit of a PhD in one of several disciplines.
Our lab rotations allow you to explore several different fields, leading to your “Eureka!” moment of career path: the best department and lab fit for your PhD research.
Whether you've decided, or are still thinking about what field to choose, our focused training, broad-based curriculum and dedicated mentoring will help you make progress.
Our faculty publish widely and regularly receive national and international acclaim. These experts will work closely with you as you assume your own independent research.
Take an interdisciplinary approach to the in-depth study of informatics principles and techniques. Focus on a research- or practicum-oriented curriculum and train in hospital or other clinical health care settings and biomedical research laboratories.
Discover genes essential for biological functions, perform genomic analysis of developmental systems and analyze transcription networks in microbes and animals.
Investigate neurobiology with an emphasis on molecular biophysics, sensory systems, development and plasticity, brain and behavior, and diseases of the nervous system.
Study the cellular basis and mechanisms of drug action, cell and molecular pharmacology, drug design and discovery, neuropharmacology, environmental and medical toxicology, and toxicogenomics.
Our Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) provides you with research experience as an undergraduate in a state-of-the-art biomedical research laboratory. It's an excellent way to get hands-on experience in biomedical research prior to applying to a PhD program.
