Academic Institute

WCGS faculty at the New York campus will provide the didactic curriculum via remote learning with mentoring by WCGS faculty at the Houston campus. The thesis research will be performed at the Houston Methodist Academic Institute, under the direction of WCGS faculty located at both the Houston and NYC campuses. Graduate students and WCGS faculty based in Houston will visit New York City for program retreats and graduate school events. In turn, graduate students and faculty based in New York City can benefit from Houston-based faculty expertise and state-of-the-art facilities and technology at the Houston Methodist Academic Institute. This collaboration will enhance the experience of students and faculty at both locations, promote scientific interactions, and add diversity to our student body.

Our Mission and Vision

The mission of the WCGS program at the Houston campus is to mentor a new generation of leaders in biomedical research. Our trainees will generate fundamental insights that transform medical care. They will learn how to effectively work in scientific teams while also developing their own ideas. They will learn and apply cutting edge technologies in state-of-the-art core facilities and analyze their data with contemporary algorithms in bioinformatics and computational biology. They will become articulate communicators of scientific ideas and concepts who write compelling papers and award-winning grants. In the translational environment of the Houston campus, adjoined to the Houston Methodist Hospital, they will become conversant with the generation and commercialization of intellectual property and the regulatory roadmap to approval of novel devices, diagnostics, and therapeutics. The trajectory of their research career will be steep and send them toward fulfilling careers of independent investigation that will improve human welfare.

Funding

The Bookout Gotto Program in Translational Biomedical Research provides generous funding for this PhD degree-granting program, each accepted student is awarded:

• A competitive stipend
• Full tuition scholarship covering all tuition and academic fees

For additional information about these programs, contact:

WCGS-Houston@houstonmethodist.org

The Houston campus offers a Physiology, Biophysics, and Systems biology (PBSB) doctoral program of study. PBSB is designed to engage students with quantitative biological approaches at the forefront of physiology, the functions of cells, tissues, and organs; biophysics, the application of principles of physics to biological processes; and systems, the complex interactions between components of a biological system. The focus is on cutting edge approaches to genomics, bioinformatics and computational biology, molecular and cellular biophysics (including fluorescence microscopy and single molecule imaging, crystallography, electrophysiology and membrane systems, stem cells, and computational simulations of macromolecular systems), computational and systems neuroscience, organogenesis and development, learning, memory, and behavior. The research activities of the faculty, in genetics, structural biology, and cell and molecular biology are integrated with principles and representations from mathematics, computer science and statistics, physics, and engineering.

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The WCGS Physiology, Biophysics & Systems Biology Graduate Program at the Houston Methodist Academic Institute is currently accepting applicants. Learn more about our graduate program.

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Courses

ACE Tutorial
Bioinformatics and Computational Biomedicine
Clinical and Research Genomics
Contemporary PBSB: Cells, systems, and quantitative methods
Critical Dissection of Scientific Data
Faculty Research Lunches
Introduction to Bioengineering
Mathematical Structures in Neuroscience
Molecular Mechanisms of Membrane transport
Physiologic Genomics of the Cardiovascular System
Physiology, Biophysics & Systems Biology Seminar Series
Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 
Principles of Medical Imaging
Quantitative Understanding in Biology
Responsible Conduct of Research
Scientific Computing in Biomedicine

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