UF Pre-Health Blog: St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

Monday, February 20, 2017

St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences

By means of introduction, I am the associate dean of the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Our graduate school is welcoming its first class into the doctoral program in Biomedical Sciences beginning in the 2017 – 2018 academic year. At the same time, we are beginning to actively recruit our second cohort for the doctoral program.

Our program curriculum has a substantial translational component which makes us unique from other doctorate programs. In addition to completing all coursework in Year 1, we will be pairing each student with a clinician so that they are able follow St. Jude patients throughout their first year and experience firsthand how treatment decisions are made. Importantly, the curriculum is built so that students are able to graduate within five years.

The funding we provide for graduate students is highly competitive and comprehensive. We offer a generous 12-month stipend, full scholarship to cover tuition and fees, health insurance, a laptop computer, and funds for professional development travel and laboratory supplies.

We are recruiting undergraduate students who have or are currently conducting bench research and are interested in graduate studies in the biomedical sciences (see a list of our academic departments below). Additionally, I would also like to talk about our undergraduate research symposium and a summer internship opportunity both of which are hosted by St. Jude.