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The curriculum for the PhD in Medical Sciences can be found in the Graduate Catalog. A sample of courses offered within the Molecular Medicine concentration is listed below.
Learn more about our faculty and their research here.
Children’s Research Institute
Neuroscience Institute
Center for Drug Discovery & Innovation
James A Haley Veteran's Hospital
2020 - Roukiah Khalil was selected for the USF Signature Research Doctoral Fellowship as well as the Edith Wright Hartley scholarship. She also received the USF Federal Credit Union Best Cancer Biology Poster Award at USF Health Research Day.
2020 - Karthick Mayilsamy received the Chih Foundation Research and Publication Award; his research focus is drugs
that treat brain
inflammation and significantly increase the efficacy of the stem cell therapy
in traumatic brain injury.
2020 - Michael Sacco received the Chih Foundation Research and Publication Award. His research focuses on main
protease (Mpro) and the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 replication and was featured in Science Magazine.
2019 - Ashley Lui received the award for Molecular and Cellular Biology Research at USF Health Research Day
2019 - Michael Kemp received the Department of Energy Science Graduate Student Research Fellowship for Argonne National Lab.
For information about the PhD Program in Integrated Biomedical Sciences, contact 813-974-2836 or biomedphd@usf.edu.
Please note, students do not apply directly to a concentration. Interested students should submit an application for the PhD in Medical Sciences. Concentrations are typically selected during the first year of study.