项目介绍

2022年9月27日

The Graduate Group currently has more than 100 world class faculty members drawn from the schools of Medicine, Arts & Sciences, Engineering, Dentistry, and Veterinary Medicine, and the affiliated institutions of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia & the Wistar Institute.

All the schools and affiliated institutions are located on one compact campus

The BMB Graduate Group strongly encourages applications from under-represented minorities and students with disabilities. We partner with the School of Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania at large to provide a welcoming and supportive environment for these students. With the help of the university and medical school offices of diversity we built community, provide networking, peer support and mentoring, host annual symposia, and engage in outreach. With the help of Penn`s Office of Student Disabilities Services we provide extensive support for navigating Penn`s campus, providing accommodations, provide physical resources at the Weingarten Learning Center, and host an annual disability symposium, amongst other initiatives.We typically matriculate between 12-15 students per year. Over the last 3 yrs, 61% were female, and 38% were URM students. There are currently 95 Ph.D and combined degree students enrolled. 57% are women, 31% are URM students and 8% are International. Median time to degree is 6.3 years

The Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Graduate Group (BMB) offers interdisciplinary training through a rigorous but flexible curriculum, exposure to cutting edge research and unmatched laboratory and research instrumentation facilities.

The program comprises interrelated didactic and training elements: Lab rotations, formal courses (lecture based and seminar based), responsible conduct in research, scientific rigor and reproducibility, oral and written scientific communication skills, grant writing. These elements all revolve around immersive training in research by doing research. Modern scientific research is a highly collaborative activity, and students partake fully in the scientific community at Penn as well as being involved in a variety of outreach activities such as mentoring and science education at local schools, science policy, and diversity student recruitment activities.

92 students graduated over the 2011-2019 period. These students had a total of 421 author credits on 372 peer reviewed publications. Graduates averaged 4.6 publications per student from their dissertation: 4 ‘unshared’ publications per student, 2 first author publications. 13% of these publications were in high profile journals. Placement rate 5yrs after graduation was above 95%. Graduates entered a diverse range of career tracks, including academic, government and industrial research, higher education, science communication, science policy, biotech and entrepreneur startups, and software development.