The Interfaces Graduate Training Program
at UC San Diego

Established in 2005 to bring together faculty and students from the biological, engineering, physical, and health sciences disciplines, the program provides unique, interdisciplinary, graduate training at the interfaces between these fields of study. The training program has been made possible with the support of grants from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and the National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The program's goals are:

Focused collaboration across participating degree programs at UC San Diego to train a new generation of cross-disciplinary scientists.
State-of-the-art interdisciplinary training through a technology-centered, hands-on, graduate laboratory course curriculum.
Novel emphasis on research aimed at integrative and quantitative analysis across multiple scales of biological organization from molecule to organism in health and disease.

Supporting the mission of NIBIB:

Students' chosen research project must support the mission of the NIBIB, which is to transform through engineering the understanding of disease and its prevention, detection, diagnosis, and treatment. NIBIB-supported research has pioneered groundbreaking advances to create technologies that are essential to extending the health span, by personalizing diagnosis and treatment and significantly improving quality of life. As the hub at NIH for expanding technologies across diseases and disorders, NIBIB support is driving research to benefit patients and healthcare professionals and promote further biomedical discovery.