Program Goals

Students in the Ph.D. Program will acquire:

• grounding in the primary and secondary disciplines;
• the ability to integrate the principles and theories of the disciplines;
• the ability to effectively communicate findings and approaches to solving research problems;
• research skills, such as approaches, methods, ethical principles, and tools to pursue a research line of inquiry;
• the ability to form effective interdisciplinary teams to solve novel research questions.

Participating disciplines

• Biomedical and Health Informatics
• Cell Biology and Biophysics
• Chemistry
• Geosciences
• Mathematics
• Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
• Oral and Craniofacial Sciences
• Pharmaceutical Science
• Pharmacology
• Physics