Objectives

The Program in Molecular Medicine trains graduate students in cellular and molecular biology and integrates this basic science training with clinical applications involving human disease. This unique and competitive Program achieves the following specific goals:

• to offer a graduate program leading to the PhD degree that integrates biochemical  & molecular biological approaches to understanding, preventing, and treating human disease.  
• to train biomedical scientists who can bridge basic and clinical settings.  
• to educate biomedical scientists who will act as teachers, mentors, and leaders in human health research.
• to facilitate and promote 'translational' research at Wake Forest University.

Students in the Program accomplish these goals through a combination of courses designed to provide a solid foundation in the basic sciences and in clinical molecular medicine.  The Program also facilitates the interaction of PhD and an MD scientist interested in common problems, which increases the sharing and development of ideas amongst scientists in basic science and clinical departments.  

The Molecular Medicine Graduate program at Wake Forest University School of Medicine will prepare PhD scientists with a broad knowledge of human disease, of molecular mechanisms in pathophysiology, and of the clinical implications of their basic research.