University of Maryland Baltimore

Program Information

Degree Offered

M.S.- Molecular Medicine, Ph.D.- Molecular Medicine

Format: Campus

Program Description:

The Graduate Program in Molecular Medicine at the University of Maryland Baltimore offers research and training opportunities with internationally-renowned scientists.

Our Molecular Medicine Program is an inter-disciplinary program of study leading to a Ph.D. or M.S. degree in Molecular Medicine. There are three different tracks, Cancer Biology, Molecular Genetics, Genomics & Bioinformatics, and Molecular Physiology &Pharmacology within the Molecular Medicine Ph.D. graduate program.

Our program combines traditional areas of biomedical study, including Molecular and Cell Biology, Pathology, Pharmacology and Physiology into a unique interdisciplinary research and graduate training program that is ideally suited for developing scientists of the post-genomic era.

The over 150 faculty in the Graduate Program in Molecular Medicine are internationally recognized for their research in biotechnology, cancer, cardiovascular and renal biology, functional genomics and genetics, membrane biology, muscle biology, neuroscience and neurotoxicology, reproduction and vascular biology.

Our integrative, progressive curriculum is nationally recognized and our students' learning experiences and outcomes are enhanced by our use of technology. Currently we are engaged in an iPad pilot program that is helping to reshape the ways in which we communicate, collaborate and interact in the classroom.

Our student researchers have access to a faculty comprised of world renown researchers who's appointments stretch across all of the University of Maryland's departments in the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry and the many research centers and institutes on campus including the Center for Vaccine Development, the Institute for Genome Science and the Institute of Human Virology. Our unique, geographic proximity to the NIH, NSF, FDA, other government agencies and a thriving biotech corridor provides our student with networking, career development and collaborative opportunities that are found nowhere else.

Students accepted into any of the Graduate Program in Life Sciences' PhD programs receive financial support from NIH-funded training grants, mentor grants and/or from University of Maryland, Baltimore sources.

Currently, the stipend amount for 1st and 2nd year students is $26,000. That amount increases to $27,000 once a student passes his or her qualifying exam and advances to candidacy. This typically occurs before the start of a student's 3rd year.

Separate from the stipend support provided are the benefits of complete tuition remission and coverage of student health insurance. This benefit package represents a cash value of nearly $11,000.00 a year that is, again, provided in addition to the annual stipend.

Financial support is ensured for the duration of time required to complete the Ph.D., which typically takes 4 to 6 years.

We invite you to take some time to explore our websites, engage us with your questions and "ask around". You'll soon find out why our student researchers thrive in the lab, publish, obtain their own grants and go onto successful careers in research, government, pharma and bio-tech, consulting, R & D, scientific journalism and more.

Accreditation:

Middle States Commission on Higher Education

International Student Requirements:

TOEFL scores

Tuition & Financial Aid

Financial Aid Offered: No

Classification: Doctoral/Research Universities - Intensive

Institution Sector: Public

Locale: Large City

Size & Settings: 5,000 - 9,999