About the Division of Biomedical Sciences
Overview of the Division
The Division of Biomedical Sciences oversees the UCR/UCLA Thomas Haider Program in Biomedical Sciences as well as UCR's innovative Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program.
The UCR/UCLA Thomas Haider Program in Biomedical Sciences
The UCR/UCLA Thomas Haider Program in Biomedical Sciences, Riverside County's only medical program, provides UCR students (including transfer students) exclusive access to 24 medical school seats each year. Applications for these seats are accepted only from UCR students, from any major.
- Each medical school class size of 24 students allows for close faculty/student interaction and personalized attention.
- Undergraduates also find many opportunities to participate in research, with most faculty members having undergraduates working on projects in their laboratories.
Students accepted into this prestigious medical school program complete the first two years of their medical education at UCR in an intimate learning environment before moving on to UCLA for their remaining two years. They receive their M.D. degrees from UCLA.
Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program
The Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program trains independent research scientists to enable them to bridge the wide gulfs that currently exist between basic science research and clinical medicine.
Graduate students acquire a broad understanding of human disease, therapeutics and design of predictive experimental model systems through an innovative and rigorous program that integrates medical curriculum with mentored research and critical analysis of research-based modeling of human pathophysiology.
The program offers training leading to a Ph.D. degree to students holding a BS/BA or MD degree or to students currently in the midst of an M.D. program. A combined MD/PhD degree program is available, but applicants must meet all requirements and application deadlines for the UCR/UCLA Thomas Haider Program in Biomedical Sciences.
Our People
Our faculty includes over 35 distinguished faculty with diverse research interests in:
- Cancer
- Receptor biology
- Developmental disorders
- Drug design
- Chronic inflammatory and autoimmune disease
- Vaccine development
- Parasitology
- Physiology
- Neurodegeneration
- Microbiology
- Biophysics and bioengineering
