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Graduate Program In Life Sciences (GPILS)​Programs​Epidemiology & Human Genetics

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Epidemiology & Human Genetics

The ​Graduate Program in Epidemiology and Human Genetics​ at the ​University of Maryland
School of Medicine​ offers research and training opportunities to work with
internationally-renowned scientists. The Program is interdisciplinary and provides training
leading to both the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees. Students admitted into the Ph.D. Program choose
one of three different research tracks: ​Epidemiology​, ​Molecular Epidemiology​, or ​Human
Genetics and Genomic Medicine​. Each track has its own curriculum that provides for a rich
training experience.
Students enrolled in the Program typically take courses and do research rotations during the
first 1-2 years, and identify a research mentor during the second year. Students choose from a
wide variety of research areas for their dissertation work. Faculty mentors in these tracks are
leaders in their respective fields and reside in various departments, centers, and institutes in the
School of Medicine​, ​School of Pharmacy​, ​Dental School​, ​Institute for Genome Sciences​, and
the ​Institute of Human Virology​.
Research areas in the ​Human Genetics and Genomic Medicine​ track include: complex disease
genetics, biochemical genetics, gene mapping and function, infectious disease genetics,
psychiatric genetics, pharmacogenetics, DNA instability and cancer cytogenetics.
Research areas in the ​Epidemiology​ and ​Molecular Epidemiology​ tracks include: vaccine
evaluation, hospital epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance, issues in long-term care,
disability in older adults, complementary and alternative therapies, global health and health
disparities, veterinary epidemiology, injury epidemiology, cancer epidemiology, and genetic
epidemiology of cardiovascular and other diseases.
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