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The UCSD Genetics Training Program is a predoctoral (Ph.D.) program incorporating elements of the UCSD School of Medicine, the UCSD Division of Biological Sciences, the UCSD School of Pharmacy and Pharmacuetical Sciences, and The Salk Institute for Biological Studies. The goal of this program is to train graduate students for future careers as academic or industrial scientists investigating genetic mechanisms, or using genetic methods to understand biological problems important for human health. The diverse training faculty in this program have joined together to create a common vision of contemporary Genetics training resting on a foundation of basic Biological and Biomedical Science. Our program's integrated educational principles merge a rigorous training in the principles, intellectual underpinnigns, and quantitative analytical approaches of classical and molecular Genetics, including emerging Genomic approaches, with the development of an appreciation of the problems, perspectives, and ethical issues associated with modern Clinical and Medical Genetics, including Human Gene Therapy. Our philosophy is to train outstanding students in the intellectual and technical methods of Genetics, after they have developed a strong foundation in modern biological or biomedical sciences through their first year of graduate study. UCSD graduate students with an interest in Genetics should apply with the support of a faculty mentor during the Spring or Summer of their first year, to begin training in the Fall of their second year of graduate school. Our students learn the logic and culture of current and developing Genetics and Genomics research, as well as the lore and methods of classical Genetics. By putting these focused intellectual activities into broad biological and clinical contexts, by providing training in the full range of Genetic investigation and exposing students to a broad range of research organisms, and by giving the trainees access to outstanding mentors and research problems, the UCSD Genetics Training Program develops uniquely prepared graduates with a foundation to take on any new challenge in the life and health sciences.Related sites: 
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