DEAN, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES:
Professor Diomedes Logothetis

The Graduate School of Biological Sciences at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine of NYU offers graduate education in diverse, cutting-edge areas of biomedically important basic sciences through its Ph.D. and M.D.-Ph.D. programs. The program model for predoctoral education reflects the multidisciplinary nature of contemporary biomedical sciences. It also provides an environment in which students can learn to recognize and maximize creative opportunities for translation of basic research findings into insights and therapies applying to human disease. All Ph.D. and M.D.-Ph.D. students who enter without a formal commitment to a particular training area take the core curriculum as well as Introduction to Journal Club and Responsible Conduct in Research, while pursuing a laboratory rotation sequence. Stu-dents who choose Neurosciences as their training area take the same courses except for the core courses that are specific to this multidisciplinary training area. Students can choose a research mentor from over 170 highly collaborative research preceptors who represent eight multi-disciplinary training areas: Biophysics, Structural Biology, and Biomathematics (BSBB); Cancer Biology (CB); Genetics and Genomic Sciences (GGS); Immunobiology (IM); Micro-biology (MIC); Molecular, Cellular, Biochemical, and Developmental Sciences (MCBDS); Neurosciences (NEU); and Pharmacology and Systems Biology (PSB).