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Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology (MCIP) Track The track in Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology (MCIP) attracts graduate students with diverse training and backgrounds, including chemistry, biology, physics and engineering, who are interested in basic biomedical research at the molecular, cellular or integrative level. By understanding how the molecules, cells and organs of the body interact to achieve normal biological function, researchers in the MCIP track seek to gain fundamental insight into the mechanisms of disease. The MCIP track consists of collaborative faculty with wide-ranging interests including ion channels, synaptic transmission and neuroscience, cardiac and vascular physiology, aging and metabolism whose combined expertise provides an environment that promotes the translation of research discoveries from the "bench to the bedside". Membrane Biology and Cellular Signaling Track (MBCS) Track
The Membrane Biology and Cell Signaling (MBCS) graduate track provides state-of-the-art training in understanding and investigating intracellular and intercellular signaling mechanisms, and membrane proteins, including channels, transporters, receptors and cell adhesion molecules. This track emphasizes integrating biochemical, molecular, cellular, and physiological approaches and thinking to define pathways of cell signaling and function, and their relationship ultimately to understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms of human disease.
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