Graduate Program In Life Sciences (GPILS)
The Graduate Program in Life Sciences (GPILS) offers cutting-edge translational research training in basic, biomedical, clinical, and population sciences. We offer seven PhD granting graduate programs and three MS-level programs.
Our graduate programs cover the entire range of biomedical research and life sciences including the basics of protein structure and molecular biology, integrative systems physiology, virology, vaccine development, behavior, cognition, population-based genetics, and the impact of the environment on human health.
April 2, 2025
$12.75M MPower Grant to Spur Biomedical Tech Advances in University of Maryland College Park and Baltimore Collaboration
March 12, 2025
Meningococcal Vaccine Found to be Safe and Effective for Infants in Sub-Saharan Africa
February 26, 2025
Innovative CT Scan Technique Could Improve Prognosis and Treatments for Head and Neck Cancers, New Research Suggests
February 24, 2025
Jean-Pierre Raufman, MD, (Medicine) discusses critical research with gila monster venom that led to GLP-1 medications like Ozempic.
February 6, 2025
Jacques Ravel, PhD, (Microbiology and Immunology, Institute for Genome Sciences, IGS) and Rebecca Brotman, PhD, MPH (Epidemiology & Public Health, IGS) are quoted on a new study finding a bacterial vaginosis subtype increases risk for chlamydia infection.
November 13, 2024
Exposure to Marijuana in the Womb May Increase Risk of Addiction to Opioids Later in Life, Study Finds (Dr. Joseph Cheer)
October 22, 2024
UM School of Medicine's Margaret M. McCarthy, PhD, Elected as Member of Prestigious National Academy of Medicine
September 17, 2024
UM School of Medicine Aims to Accelerate Basic Science Research and Advance Drug Therapies with Newly-Created Department
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Student Spotlight
Meet Da'Kuawn Johnson
Last year, Da'Kuawn was University of Maryland, Baltimore's first recipient of the prestigious Gilliam Fellowship Award through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. As a part of the award, Fellows create a project that engages their communities in the process of science and scientific discovery.
Da'Kuawn is a student in the Molecular Microbiology and Immunology program. His research in Dr. Nicholas Carbonetti's lab investigates how type III interferon signaling protects young mice from lethal B. pertussis infection.
Dissertation Defenses
Ryan Scalsky - Epidemiology and Human Genetics - Thursday, May 1
Catherine Haga - Neuroscience - Friday, May 2
Assistant Dean for Graduate & Postdoctoral Scholars
Professor, Department of Pharmacology
jmong@som.umaryland.edu
