Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences

Mentor Match Celebration

Selecting a mentor to oversee a student’s scientific training and development is a vital first step in the journey towards a Ph.D. The Fall 2017 cohort of students have successfully […]

The College of Medicine- Record Setting Research Funding

The University of Florida received a record $837.6 million in research funding in fiscal year 2018, surpassing the previous record set in fiscal 2016 by $113.6 million, or nearly 16 […]

2nd Annual Diversity Graduate Research Symposium

2017-2018 College of Medicine Mentoring Award Winners

The College of Medicine’s annual Faculty Doctoral Mentoring Award encourages and rewards excellence, innovation and effectiveness in mentoring doctoral students through their final dissertation project. Nominations for the award come […]

2018 Medical Guild Research Symposium

April 13, 2018 — Eight students from the UF College of Medicine graduate program in biomedical sciences presented their research in areas like cancer biology, neuroscience and immunology Monday at […]

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Program Mission: Scholarship & Research

The mission of the Biomedical Sciences program is to provide a predoctoral educational experience that will train experimentalists and scholars for a wide range of careers.

The educational goals are to promote biological literacy by providing core and advanced curricula covering key chemical, biological and genetic principles using molecular, cellular and physiological approaches, and to promote scholarship in biomedical science through mentored, original research.