The Graduate Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB) prepares students for careers as research scientists and educators in an academic or industrial environment.   MCDB is interdisciplinary in nature and includes the combined talents of more than 100 PhD students and 180 faculty from multiple departments in eight colleges:

  • Medicine
  • Arts and Sciences
  • Veterinary Medicine
  • Pharmacy
  • Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Sciences
  • Dentistry
  • Engineering
  • Public Health

MCDB offers a course of study leading to the doctoral degree.  Research training is very diverse and major areas of inquiry include:  Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, DNA Replication and Repair, Gene Expression, Molecular Medicine, Molecular Neurobiology, Plant Molecular Biology, RNA Biology, and Virology.