Prospective Student Information
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
The Molecular Biology Program at the University of Utah is a cooperative effort by faculty from the Biology and Chemistry Departments in the College of Science, five departments in the College of Medicine (Biochemistry, Human Genetics, Pathology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, Oncological Sciences) and the Department of Medicinal Chemistry in the College of Pharmacy. It brings together approximately 120 faculty members and 275 graduate students with research interests in different areas of molecular biology, including biochemistry, cancer and cell biology, developmental biology, gene expression, neurobiology, and genetics. The Program sponsors an extensive series of outside seminar speakers and other activities that foster communication and scientific interaction among the members of the molecular biology community. Its primary functions, however, are to admit, train, and support first-year students working toward a Ph.D. degree in the general area of molecular biology. The Program itself does not offer a degree, but rather accesses the entire molecular biology community to incoming students and enables them to choose a thesis advisor and dissertation committee from faculty in any of the participating departments.
http://www.bioscience.utah.edu/mb/mbApplications/index.html
BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY:
The Program in Biological Chemistry is an interdepartmental graduate program consisting of faculty from the Departments of Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Oncological Sciences, and Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry. The Program brings together over 45 faculty members with research interests in such diverse areas as structure and function of proteins and nucleic acids, enzyme reaction mechanisms, drug delivery, protein folding and biosynthesis, DNA replication, neurochemistry, theory of small molecule/large molecule interactions and biological separation. The diversity permits excellent training in a wide range of areas that cross traditional boundaries in the biological and chemical sciences.
