Graduate Education
in Systems Biology
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Read profiles of our PhD students to learn about their experience and research.
The Columbia University Department of Systems Biology invites applications from students interested in pursuing careers at the frontiers of modern biology. You will learn to apply powerful, multidisciplinary approaches and address critical biological questions from the perspective of complex genomic and molecular systems.
PhD education at Columbia stresses the importance of high-throughput experimentation, quantitative analysis of large biological data sets, and innovative technology development. Whether your primary interest is in experimental or computational research in systems biology, the experience you gain will prepare you to participate in cutting-edge science that integrates the two.
This year’s application deadline is December 1, 2024.
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When Diana Murray first started working with two high school students on an online summer cancer systems biology course in 2018, she never imagined that the initiative, now called DREAM-High, would snowball to 56 participants by 2026. “The class started as a consolation prize for high school students who didn’t get selected for a different program funded by the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation,” shares Murray, who in addition to being a computational systems biologist is also the Program Director of Research and Education at Columbia University. And she proceeds to explain.
Mohammed AlQuraishi, PhD receives grant from the National Library of Medicine
Mohammed AlQuraishi, PhD will receive $1,440,905 over four years from the National Library of Medicine for “Fast and slow prediction of stable and transient protein-protein interactions.”
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