The School of Medicine provides advanced scientific training toward Ph.D. degrees in biomedical research in a resource-rich, collaborative environment dedicated to scientific discovery.
Program Choices
Facts and Figures
The University of Washington Biomedical Sciences Graduate Programs include:
Structure
All of the Biomedical Sciences Programs reflect the cross-disciplinary nature of training in the sciences. Students apply to individual programs, most of which are based in a single department. Several departmental programs have an open rotation policy where first year students can do a laboratory rotation in another participating program. Under this policy, it is also possible for a student to change their degree-granting departmental program early in their enrollment.
Research training opportunities include affiliation with such institutions as the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the Virginia Mason Research Center, and departmental relationship with many biotechnology firms and non-profit research institutes.
Salary and Benefits
All but two Biomedical Sciences programs guarantee salary, medical coverage, and tuition waivers to students in good standing. In most cases, the Bioengineering program and the Bioinformatics programs provide stipend and tuition waivers or research assistantships to their students. However, this funding is not guaranteed.