Graduate Program

The Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the Boston University School of Medicine offers programs leading to M.A. or Ph.D. degree. Each program stresses laboratory training and original research performed under the direction of a faculty member, as well as satisfactory performance in graduate course work.

In the first and second years of both the M.A. and Ph.D. programs, a core curriculum of biophysics, physiology and biochemistry is supplemented with courses in cell and molecular biology, physics, or chemistry. The course program emphasizes flexibility and individual choice. In the first year, students do research rotations in the laboratories of three or four faculty to gain firsthand knowledge of a variety of research areas.

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At end of the first year, students select a degree advisor and begin laboratory research towards the Ph.D. degree. In the second year students continue to take courses and Ph.D. students must pass a Qualifying exam. Throughout their training, students also participate in a weekly department seminar series and report their research progress annually.