Undergraduate Research at Yale School of Medicine

The Yale University School of Medicine is renowned for its strengths in both clinical medicine and research, and the faculty includes more than 500 active investigators in the biological and biomedical sciences. While medical school departments do not conduct undergraduate degree programs*, many medical school faculty are active in teaching in Yale College and regularly supervise undergraduate research projects. Nine medical school departments offer Ph.D. programs and faculty of these and many other programs participate in graduate training through the Combined Graduate Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences.

Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry major Si-Wook Sung '01 and faculty mentor Stefan Somlo of Internal Medicine discuss the result of an HPLC run.

Research opportunities in the medical school range from basic research in biology and biochemistry to epidemiological research involving the transmission of tropical diseases. Students in Biomedical Engineering find fascinating opportunities in areas ranging from imaging to engineering of new clinically useful materials and devices.

Studies in the Environment and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology major Megan MacLeod '01 tests the effects of nitric oxide on molecular markers of cellular stress in the laboratory of her faculty mentor, Michael Kashgarian of Pathology.

Each year, more than 100 undergraduates perform research with faculty in medical school departments including Cell Biology, Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Genetics, Immunobiology, Internal Medicine, Neurobiology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Pathology, and Pharmacology, and in the School of Public Health.

Chemistry major Binu-John Sankoorikal confers with faculty advisor Priscilla Dannies of Pharmacology.

* Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry is a department in both the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the School of Medicine.

modified 5/10/09