Located in the heart of the Illinois Medical District, the University of Illinois College of Medicine is the largest medical school in the country. The extensive clinical and research resources provide an extraordinary and exciting opportunity for the study of medical science. Outstanding features include:
• Medical education at the UIC College of Medicine and the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago is superb, and is tailored to the needs of our combined degree students.
• After a period as the fastest growing research university in the nation, UIC is now a major biomedical research center, replete with exceptional opportunities for graduate training.
• The 600 bed UIC Hospital and the $100 million state-of-the-art Outpatient Clinic cover all facets of medical care and serve a complex referral and urban population.
• Internationally known for its excellence, the Lions of Illinois Eye Research Institute provides additional opportunities for students enrolled in the Medical Scientist Training Program.
• UIC's Center for MRI Research houses the only 9.4 Tesla (the largest) human scanner in the world. Built by General Electric Medical Systems, this scanner offers great potential for studies of the brain and rest of the body beyond the signals that arise from water used in conventional MRI.
• UIC has been a National Center of Excellence of the U.S. Public Health Services Office on Women's Health, DHHS, since the fall of 1998. Our program is designed to integrate biomedical expertise with the grass roots women's health vision, and emphasizes partnership: across disciplines and professions, academic with community, and healthcare provider with patient.
• UIC is a member of the Chicago Biomedical Consortium (with the University of Chicago and Northwestern University), sponsored by the Searle Foundation which plans to support biomedical research with $50 Million over the next ten years.
• UIC is the location of the $1.5 Million Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometer for Proteomics, endowed by the Chicago Biomedical Consortium.
• UIC is the site for the Center for Structural Biology, including the new, state-of-the-art, 900 MHz NMR spectrometer
• UIC's Cardiovascular Research Initiative has linked the clinical activities of the section with the rich basic research environment within the larger medical school campus.
MD/ PhD students may pursue their PhD studies in a variety of PhD- granting programs in the sciences throughout the University, including, but not limited to, the following:
• Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
• Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
• Department of Microbiology and Immunology
• Department of Pharmacology
• Department of Physiology and Biophysics
• Department of Bioengineering
• Department of Biogical Science
• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• UIC Neuroscience
• School of Public Health PhD Program
• Biopharmaceutical Sciences
• Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
• Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy