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Education

A core mission of CMM is education of the next generation of scientists, through both active graduate education and intensive postdoctoral training. The department also offers multiple training programs, led by prestigious faculty members, such as the CBIO Training Program. The range in offerings provides future scientists the opportunity to explore the scientific world at one central location. 

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Graduate Education

Our Graduate Programs emphasize an interdisciplinary and inter-departmental approach for studying the molecular, cellular and genetic pathways of cell function and their relationship to human disease.

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Postdoctoral Training

The postdoctoral experience at UCSD emphasizes scholarship and continued academic training in preparation for a permanent position in academe, industry, government, or the nonprofit sector.

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CBIO Training Program

Providing PhD students and post-doctoral scholars with training in fundamental discovery cancer research that emphasizes big data acquisitions through Omics technologies and big data analyses by using Informatics and Machine Learning tools.

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Genetics Training Program

Merge a rigorous training in the principles, intellectual underpinnings, and quantitative analytical methods of both classical and cutting edge Genetics and Genomics approaches with an appreciation of the problems, perspectives, and ethical issues associated with modern biomedical applications, including clincial genetics and gene therapy.

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