G-GGP-PHD - University Program in Genetics and Genomics - PhD

The Duke University Program in Genetics and Genomics (UPGG) is an umbrella graduate training program that spans several basic science and clinical departments and bridges the medical center and the college of arts and sciences. There are more than 90 faculty with three adjunct faculty, and more than fifty-four students in the program, which was founded in 1967 and has been continuously supported by a training grant from the NIH for more than thirty-five years. Over the past several decades, the program has served as an important forum for training and education in genetics and genomics, including model systems (bacteria, yeast, fungi, drosophila, zebrafish, mouse), population genetics, and human genetics. The program has close links with the several genetic and genomic centers and institutes across the university and medical school. The Duke UPGG is unique in that it is degree granting.

Students admitted to the University Program in Genetics and Genomics obtain a PhD by working with faculty of the interdepartmental University Program in Genetics and Genomics.

For more information, visit upg.duke.edu.