monkeyOur program provides training for both Doctoral candidates and Postdoctoral trainees.

Research training is in the laboratory of any of our 21 Faculty Trainers. Our trainers are world-renowned for their research, and offer research opportunities in the latest cutting-edge research, using a variety of experimental model systems.

Doctoral candidates will pursue degrees through one of the six Biomedical Sciences (BMS) programs (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Cell & Molecular Biology, Genetics and Genome Science, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Pharmacology & Toxicology, and Physiology).

Additional graduate programs that are also available include Animal Science, Biomedical Engineering, Comparative Medicine and Integrative Biology, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Neuroscience. Dual degree candidates (MD/PhD and DO/PhD) also participate.

Participating Department or Program

Biomolecular Sciences Gateway (BMS}

Biochemisty & Mol Biology

Cellular & Molecular Biology

Genetics & Genome Science

Microbiology & Molecular Genetics

Pharmacology & Toxicology

Physiology

Animal Science

Biomed Engineering

CMIB (Comparative medicine & Integrative Biology)

Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Neuroscience

ryan marquardt

Ryan Marquardt has been awarded an NIH F31 predoctoral fellowship by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) for the project titled: “The role of ARID1A in endometriosis-related infertility”. This project is sponsored by Dr. Jae-Wook Jeong and co-sponsored by Dr. Asgerally Fazleabas in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology. Ryan is a doctoral candidate in the Cell and Molecular Biology Program studying the molecular basis of endometrial dysfunction implicated in endometriosis and infertility.

Mammalian embryos are unlike those of any other organism as they must grow within the mother’s body. While other animal embryos grow outside the mother, their embryonic cells can get right to work accepting assignments, such as head, tail or vital organ. By contrast, mammalian embryos must first choose between forming the placenta or creating the baby.

Boston, MA – Women with higher urinary concentrations of a common type of flame retardant had reduced likelihood of clinical pregnancy and live birth than those with lower concentrations, according to researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Kaitlin Karl

EAST LANSING, Mich. – Kaitlin Karl, a Ph.D. student in the Michigan State University (MSU) Department of Animal Science, has received a fellowship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue her work alongside faculty members Jim Ireland and Keith Latham on improving superovulation in cattle, which may benefit assisted reproductive technology (ART) in women.

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Ripla Arora is an assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Biology within the College of Human Medicine and is the Chief of the Division of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology in the Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering. Her research focuses on embryo uterine interactions at the time of implantation and uterine development.