Welcome

The mission of the Graduate School is to provide a rigorous educational experience in biomedical sciences to excellent, research-oriented students. The educational approach will provide them with a broad perspective, with the capacity and zest for mastering new knowledge in a period of ever more rapid change, and with the analytical skills that are fundamental to investigation. Innovative program and course design and the full multidisciplinary use of institutional strengths in education and research will attract a strong student group. The education programs will then foster their development into imaginative, independent investigators, including research-oriented physician-scientists, who will contribute significantly and in diverse ways to the progress of science.

Education of Ph.D. and MSTP (Medical Scientist Training Program, M.D./Ph.D. Program) students occurs within the context of a strong and vibrant research environment in which faculty leaders of research programs are deeply interested in participating in that education. There are currently 254 students matriculated in the Graduate School: 83 students in the MSTP and 171 in the Ph.D. Program. Mount Sinai's research faculty is in a period of active growth in numerous interactive and important areas of research. Thus students enjoy interactions with new faculty and the new programs and viewpoints they bring to the Graduate School throughout their stay at Mount Sinai.

Currently, there are more than 200 members of the Graduate Faculty, most of whom are anxious to have the opportunity to work with predoctoral students who will choose to pursue projects in their laboratories. A second, but equally important, mission of the Graduate School is therefore to sustain programs of sufficient size which will maximally engage the talents of our most active faculty researchers so that they enjoy the rewards of mentoring students to acquire the maturity and skills that are essential for productive careers in science.

As part of the recruitment of accomplished predoctoral applicants, the provision of increased mentoring opportunities for our research faculty, and serving as a place in which talented undergraduate students can learn about research with hands-on experience, the Graduate School sponsors a Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) that selects a group of diverse undergraduate students from across the country for a 10-week educational experience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Please feel free to contact the Graduate School if you would like further information.

John H. Morrison, Ph.D.

Dean of Basic Sciences and the Graduate School of Biological Sciences

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