PhD Molecular and Cellular Biology

The Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) program at Dartmouth was founded in 1994 and is an interdisciplinary graduate program whose mission is to train highly qualified students for productive careers in research and teaching through the completion of a Ph.D. degree. Faculty members in MCB are among the top in their fields, as recognized by competitive research grants, publication in leading journals, and membership in professional societies. While performing cutting edge science, they maintain a collegial feeling to the program and foster a collaborative environment. Dartmouth, one of the Ivy League institutions, has a long-standing tradition of close student-faculty ties; a tradition that is heartily endorsed by the MCB program.Dartmouth MCB consists of approximately 168 students and 66 faculty members whose research spans a wide range of topics including biophysics and structural biology, biotechnology, cancer biology, cell biology, circadian biology, computational and quantitative biology, developmental biology, evolutionary biology, genetics, genomics and proteomics, immunology, microbiology, molecular pathogenesis and host-microbe interactions, neuroscience, plant molecular biology, regulation of gene expression, and signal transduction and cellular metabolism.