IQB Ph.D. Curriculum

The Quantitative Biomedicine curriculum is intended to provide the foundation upon which to build a personalized education and research path in any of the myriad of areas in Quantitative Biomedicine. The interdisciplinary curriculum is custom-designed to provide a knowledge base that will promote the student's scientific and research goals, with the intent of enabling the student to work on some projects collaboratively with scientists of different backgrounds.

Among the special course and workshop offerings are:

1. Courses that address such areas as mathematical and computational techniques in biology, structural biology, bioinformatics, statistics, quantitative modeling in biology, data mining and pattern recognition, biophysics, and physical biochemistry
2. Transition courses that will provide a valuable educational introduction for students from: A number of interdisciplinary seminar series, workshops, and visitor programs focused on current developments at the frontiers of biomedical research
   1. the quantitative sciences, with little or no previous background in the biological sciences, to relevant areas of chemistry, biochemistry, and biology
   2. the biological sciences, with little or no previous background in the more quantitative sciences, to relevant areas of mathematics, statistics, physics, and computer science
3. Annual Winter and Summer Interdisciplinary Quantitative Biology Boot Camps designed to augment the education for students coming from all areas of science. The boot camps are immersive one- or two-week programs offered between semesters that provide broad introductory exposure to the language and the experimental/theoretical underpinnings of molecular biology, macromolecular biochemistry/biophysics, structural biology, computational biology, systems biology, and bioinformatics. The topics of the boot camps vary to address diverse current areas of inquiry, consisting of lectures on fundamental aspects of biology, a broad range of collaborative hands-on practical exercises, tours of some of Rutgers' (and, in some cases, outside) state-of-the-art facilities for interrogating biological phenomena, daily career training sessions, fun activities for relaxing at multiple points each day, and a culminating symposium or presentation organized and provided by the students.
4. Outside courses may be taken at numerous other universities that are part of the inter-university doctoral consortium. Rutgers credits are used to pay for these courses.

The course requirements are as follows (detailed further in the QB Handbook).

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3