We are pleased to announce that in the Fall 2021, Weill Cornell Medicine is expanding its PhD program in Physiology, Biophysics, and Structural biology (PBSB) to a new site at Houston Methodist Academic Institute, the education and research arm of Houston Methodist. PBSB faculty pride themselves in a very distinguished and successful track record of mentoring graduate students and preparing them for a variety of scientific careers in science.Īdditional information is available on the Physiology and Biophysics Department website. The course of study in the PBSB program is organized into modular courses and seminars offering education at the conceptual level, as well as in the experimental and computational tools of the component disciplines (physiology, biophysics and systems biology), and emphasizes quantitative methods and approaches. Graduate students in PBSB participate in the design and evolution of these approaches and in their innovative application to state-of-the-art research in human structure and function. The PBSB faculty members are engaged in world-class research aimed at understanding the functional mechanisms in the human body in health and disease, and represent multidisciplinary research teams with appointments in various departments, including Physiology and Biophysics, Medicine, Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Radiology, Computational Biomedicine, Neuroscience, Genetics, and Cell and Developmental Biology. This new integrative perspective, termed integrative systems biology, complements and completes the study of structure and mechanisms of the body's building blocks from their embryonic development to their mature function, in both healthy and diseased states. Together, these offer unprecedented insights into systems and functions of physiological components (e.g., from the cell to the heart, and from the neuron to the nervous system). These approaches make it possible to integrate, in the research activities of the program's faculty, the findings from genetics, structural biology, and cell and molecular biology with principles and representations from mathematics, computer science and statistics, physics, and engineering. The outlook of the education and research program is quantitative, based on state of the art approaches in genomics, bioinformatics and computational biology, major areas of 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. Physiology, Biophysics & Systems Biology graduate program at WCGS is designed to engage students with research at the forefront of biomedical engineering sciences: 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.
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