Graduate Programs and Postdoctoral Training
At the University of Minnesota Medical School, we excel in providing superior training to graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in health-relevant sciences and biomedical research enterprise. These graduate training elements are largely supported by the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.
GRADUATE DEGREES
The University of Minnesota Medical School offers a number of graduate programs leading to the master of science (MS) and doctor of philosophy (PhD) degrees.
Click below to view the various graduate programs available to students, with disciplines and research areas that include neuroscience, immunology, cardiology, diabetes, infectious diseases, genomic and genome engineering, rehabilitation sciences and more.
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POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING
Across various Centers, Institutes, Programs and Departments, the Medical School provides excellent opportunities to continue recent PhD students' postdoctoral training. Research in the Medical School ranges from investigating the innermost workings of cells to analyzing health data at a population level. Faculty researchers, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars thrive in an multi- and cross-disciplinary research environment where teamwork is valued, encouraged, and rewarded and diversity is embraced.
In partnership with many biomedical and health science specialists across the University, we are excited to have our postdoctoral scholars receive mentorship from our faculty as they collectively work together to untangle today’s biggest medical challenges and understand the underlying mechanisms governing the life sciences.
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Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
The Medical School's Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies serves to provide support, services and resources to both graduate student and postdoctoral scholar trainees.
Team members within the office oversee several programmatic activities, provide numerous resources and serve to support recruitment, retention, research education, and career development for all graduate student and postdoctoral scholar trainees.