UNSOM Prospective Applicants: Degree Programs: Graduate

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Ph.D.
The School of Medicine offers students choices in master's, doctoral, and post-doctoral training in biomedical sciences. These include:

• Biochemistry
• Biomedical Engineering
• Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology
• Cell and Molecular Biology
• Microbiology

Nevada's scientists are among the top researchers in the country. The amount of funding received annually from the National Institutes of Health places our school in the top 10 of public medical schools. The school is ranked first among the 16 community based schools for research funding. Areas of research include:

• Applications of plasma physics
• Neural network computing
• Molecular biology of ion channels
• Cardiac and smooth muscle electrophysiology
• Opportunistic infections
• Emerging viruses
• Cancer immunology
• Alzheimer's disease
• Smoking cessation
• Suicide prevention

The University of Nevada, Reno and the School of Medicine were recently awarded a $10 million COBRE grant to support research with clinical collaboration focused on cell signaling