Oral Biology PhD
The PhD program provides training for those who wish to pursue basic and/or clinical research in dental medicine or the biomedical sciences. Candidates may include those with bachelor's, master's, or DDS (or the equivalent) degrees.
Interdisciplinary in nature, the PhD program draws upon the expertise of the faculty in such areas as :
- biochemistry
- biophysics
- clinical studies
- developmental biology
- epidemiology
- immunology
- microbiology
- cell and molecular biology
- physiology
- pharmacology
Students choose an area of concentration from these disciplines but may also combine work in several fields in order to support their research interests; a research area does not necessarily consist of a single "traditional" scientific discipline. This program requires instead that students be committed to research and an academic career.
“The students, the faculty—it's kind of a big family.”