Duke has a variety of departments and programs in which students can earn their PhD. Since much of the work at Duke is cross-departmental and interdisciplinary, a student may choose a mentor in one department while collaborating closely with others across department lines.
The official affiliation with the PhD department is made at the end of the first year of graduate school. While the rotations are optional, the typical student spends the first semester doing short exploratory rotations in several labs and then chooses a PhD department. Students who have already made their choices without rotation experiences are allowed to proceed straight into the chosen lab. In either case, official affiliation happens at the end of the first year of graduate school.
Departments and programs at Duke that grant PhDs in biomedical sciences.
- Biochemistry
- Biostatistics
- Biology
- Biomedical Engineering
- Cell Biology
- Computational Biology & Bioinformatics
- Fuqua School of Business
- Integrative Immunobiology
- Integrated Toxicology & Environmental Health
- Medical Physics
- Molecular Cancer Biology
- Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
- Neurobiology
- Pathology
- Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
- Sanford School of Public Policy
- University Program in Genetics and Genomics