The Cancer Biology discipline is a vibrant community of successful researchers and educators with expertise across the spectrum of bench research to bedside application. The Cancer Biology discipline provides students and fellows rigorous training in fundamentals of cancer biology and translational aspects of cancer research including drug development, prevention and treatment. Our National Cancer Institute (NCI) designed cancer center provides students the opportunity to closely interact with physician scientists. We have Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas and NCI T32 training grants. In addition, our students successfully compete in NCI pre-doctoral fellowships; publish in high impact journals and pursue successful careers at top-tier academic institutes and industries.
Our curriculum is designed to provide students with the fundamental concepts, problem-solving skills, and advanced insights necessary to navigate successfully through their research projects.
Acceptance into the IBMS program requires a bachelor's degree with a final GPA of 3.0 or above and 3 letters of recommendation.
Dynamic, well-funded faculty from numerous basic science and clinical departments with common research interests.
Investigators use multi-disciplinary approaches to solve a wide variety of biomedical problems, often resulting in important outcomes that translate into important clinical insights.
Students receive a stipend of $30,000. Tuition, fees, and basic student health insurance are covered by the program.
Typical graduates fill postdoctoral research positions in universities, biotech or pharmaceutical companies, or government research laboratories before pursuing their first independent professional position.
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Cancer Biology is a discipline of the Ph.D. in Integrated Biomedical Sciences program.
Students receive a stipend of $30,000. Tuition, fees, and basic student health insurance are covered by the program.
Graduation, student, faculty and institutional statistics for the Integrated Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program.
Manjeet Rao, Ph.D.
Cancer Biology Discipline Director
Phone: 210-562-9191
raom@uthscsa.edu
Judith Quiroz
Cancer Biology Discipline Coordinator
Phone: 210-567-3802
quirozj1@uthscsa.edu
Michael Berton, Ph.D
IBMS Program Director
berton@uthscsa.edu
Donna Navarro, MS
IBMS Assistant Director
navarrod3@uthscsa.edu
"I chose the Cancer Biology discipline because of the interdisciplinary and collaborative environment which fosters innovative translational approaches to improve cancer patient outcomes and survivorship."Kristin Altwegg, 2nd year student