{"id":831,"date":"2015-12-09T14:48:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T19:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.grad.uchc.uconn.edu\/?page_id=444"},"modified":"2025-07-02T11:33:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T15:33:49","slug":"program-description","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/graduate-school\/academics\/programs\/ph-d-biomedical-science\/immunology-graduate-program\/program-description\/","title":{"rendered":"Immunology Concentration Description"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Immunology Area of Concentration within the Biomedical Science Ph.D. program emphasizes several areas, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Molecular and computational immunology; transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms regulating the expression of immunologically relevant genes and immune cell development and function.<\/li>\n<li>Cellular, biochemical, and structural immunology; signal transduction in lymphocytes and innate immune cells, effect of cytokines and chemokines on immune cell function, identification of tumor antigens, and mechanisms of inflammation.<\/li>\n<li>Organ-based immunology; immune cell effector mechanisms and interactions in the intestine, lung, vasculature, and central nervous system.<\/li>\n<li>Pathogenic mechanisms and therapeutic approaches for immunologically-relevant diseases; autoimmunity, viral, bacterial, and parasitic infectious diseases, cancer, pathologic inflammation, aging, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and neurodegenerative diseases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Immunology concentration focuses on preparing students to become immunologists capable of undertaking careers encompassing independent scholarly research work at universities, institutes or the biotech\/pharma sectors. This is accomplished through laboratory training that emphasizes mastery of cutting-edge immunological techniques and experimental approaches that enable the development of hypothesis-driven projects. Students also take core course<span>s<\/span> required by the Ph.D. in Biomedical Science Program as well as courses in Immunobiology (<strong>MEDS 5329<\/strong>) and\u00a0Advanced Molecular and Cellular Immunology (<strong>MEDS 5335<\/strong>)<span>, and their scientific critical thinking and communication skills are honed through participation in journal clubs and research-in-progress seminars<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-success\" href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/\">Visit the Department of Immunology<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Background<\/h2>\n<p>The Biomedical Science Ph.D. program was approved by the Graduate School of the University of Connecticut in 1969. It was activated in 1971 coincident with the start of the NIH Training Grant, Basic Immunology and Immunological Cell Injury. Currently, the Immunology concentration has 24 faculty, and is training 24 Ph.D. graduate students supported by University Fellowships or faculty grants.<\/p>\n<p>Graduates from the Immunology concentration continued their postdoctoral training and\/or hold positions at:<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" style=\"width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"381\" style=\"width: 49.5364%\">Bristol-Myers Squibb<br \/>\nNew York University<br \/>\nUniversity of Michigan<br \/>\nHarvard University<br \/>\nBiopolymer Inc.<br \/>\nUniversity of Tokyo<br \/>\nRockefeller University<br \/>\nUniversity of Iowa<br \/>\nYale University<br \/>\nBoehringer-Ingelheim Inc.<br \/>\nState University of New York<br \/>\nAbbvie Pharmaceuticals<br \/>\nNational Institutes of Health<br \/>\nTufts University<br \/>\nUniversity of North Carolina<br \/>\nAlton Jones Science Center<br \/>\nBrown University<br \/>\nWestern New England University<br \/>\nJohns Hopkins University<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%;text-align: left;vertical-align: top\">University of Massachusetts<br \/>\nMiles Laboratories<br \/>\nColumbia University<br \/>\nMerck<br \/>\nDana Farber Cancer Center<br \/>\nJackson Laboratory<br \/>\nPfizer<br \/>\nUniversity of Southern California<br \/>\nGenentech<br \/>\nEmory University<br \/>\nOhio State University<br \/>\nFox Chase Cancer Center<br \/>\nScripps Clinic and Research Foundation<br \/>\nFood and Drug Administration,<br \/>\nPasteur Institute, Paris, France<br \/>\nKing\u2019s College, Oxford University<br \/>\nUniversity of Wisconsin<br \/>\nAlloy Therapeutics<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: inherit;font-size: inherit\">PlateletBio<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>rev. 9\/23<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Immunology Area of Concentration within the Biomedical Science Ph.D. program emphasizes several areas, including: Molecular and computational immunology; transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms regulating the expression of immunologically relevant genes and immune cell development and function. 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