Location:

Baltimore, United States

Program Type:

Full Degree

Degree Level:

Doctorate

Specialty:

Cell & Molecular Biology

Program Overview

Program Description:

The Graduate Program in Molecular Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine at the University of Maryland, Baltimore offers a wide range of research and training opportunities with internationally-renowned scientists within the Graduate Program in Life Sciences. Our Molecular Medicine Program is an interdisciplinary ‘umbrella’ program of study leading to a PhD degree. There are three different interactive research tracks, providing for unique interdisciplinary research and graduate training experiences, combined with cutting-edge technologies, that are ideally suited for developing scientists of the post-genomic era.

• Cancer Biology 

• Genome Biology

• Molecular and Cellular Physiology and Pharmacology 

The over 170 faculty in this graduate program are leaders in their respective research areas and reside in various departments and Organized Research Centers within the School of Medicine and Dental School, the Institute for Genomic Sciences (IGS), the Institute of Human Virology (IHV), the Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases (CVID). Faculty expertise spans a continuum from basic to translational research through to clinical research in a wide range of disciplines including cancer biology, cardiovascular and renal biology, stem cells, functional genomics and genetics, membrane biology, muscle biology, neuroscience and neurotoxicology, reproduction, and vascular biology.

Additional Program Information

Accreditation:

Middle States Commission on Higher Education

Financial Aid:

No

International Requirements:

TOEFL scores, Official transcripts must be submitted one in native language and one in English language. All transcripts from countries other than the U.S. must also be accompanied by a NACES credential evaluation.