Research Opportunities
GMS Departments and Programs
Anatomy and Neurobiology : We conduct a vigorous research program in “systems neuroscience” from the level of molecular signaling in neurodegenerative disease to the socioaffective biology of autism.
Behavioral Neuroscience: We specialize in experimental neuropsychology, a broad field that analyzes changes in human neurobehavioral conditions resulting from stroke, alcohol and drug abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder, Alzheimer’s disease, and other brain abnormalities.
Biochemistry: We use cutting-edge technologies and experimental systems to address the cellular and molecular mechanisms of biological processes, particularly those that relate broadly to human diseases such as aging, cancer, diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases.
Cell and Molecular Biology: We offer diverse research opportunities looking at the molecular and cellular mechanisms regulating gene expression, cell structure and function relationships, receptor signaling, signal transduction processes and the impact of health and disease on all of these areas.
Genetics and Genomics: We focus on hypothesis-testing genetics and hypothesis-generating genomics to further promote advances in cellular, molecular, computational and biomedical sciences.
Graduate Program for Neuroscience: We use an interdisciplinary approach to research the molecular and cellular networks in individual brain cells and large neural networks in distant regions of the brain to help decipher the interrelationships that shape behaviors.
Immunology: We focus our research on adaptive immunity, innate immunity and inflammation, autoimmunity, cancer immunology and immunotherapy, microbial and viral immunology.
Medical Nutrition Sciences: We focus on nutritional and metabolic aspects of chronic diseases from a multidisciplinary perspective that encompasses molecular, biochemical, physiological, clinical, epidemiologic aspects of human nutrition.
Microbiology: We focus our research on the molecular mechanisms underlying microbial infection and the host immune response with areas of research including bacterial genetics, virus molecular biology, parasitology, host-pathogen interactions and immunology.
Molecular Medicine: We use molecular techniques to address basic, clinical and translational questions to address mechanisms of disease.
Oral Biology: We focus our research on the unique microbiology, connective tissue structures, and host responses of the oral cavity.
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine: We utilize experimental and applied pathology to gain a better understanding of disease processes while working to develop methods for diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases including cancer and neurological disorders.
Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics: We focus on understanding the mechanism of drug action in order to promote the development of therapeutics in a wide range of fields such as neuropharmacology, cancer and cardiovascular pharmacology, addiction, epilepsy, neuropsychiatric and neurological diseases.
Physiology & Biophysics: We focus our research on many facets of cell biology, molecular and cellular physiology, structural biology and molecular biophysics.
