Our faculty utilize a wide range model organisms, including transgenic mice and rabbits, yeast, frogs, hamsters and rats.

"Outside of the lab, there is a relaxed, informal atmosphere between the faculty and students. Sometimes the faculty come out and play pool with us. Sometimes they're even good."

Many of our faculty collaborate with each other in order to attack various clinical problems from a variety of perspectives. Some of these clinical focus areas include cancer, obesity, drug addiction, cardiovascular disease, and stroke.

A common theme underlying much of the research here is the genetic basis of human disease. These types of projects are ideally suited to our future physician scientist.

The University provides numerous core facilities, which provide services such as sequencing, generation of transgenic animals, imaging, and structural analysis.

As members of one of only 75 Research I Universities in the US, our faculty and students have the opportunity to work with the most advanced equipment and research techniques.