G-CBB-PHD - Computational Biology and Bioinformatics - PhD

The Duke University PhD Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB) is an innovative degree program designed to provide rigorous training at the interface of the quantitative and biological sciences. CBB students receive classroom training and engage in original research under the supervision of program faculty, who represent more than eighteen departments spanning biological and computational disciplines in the medical school and main campus.

The CBB Program is explicitly designed to prepare students for the broad and rapidly evolving field of computational biology research. To this end, the curriculum is flexible and tailored to the needs and interests of each student through regular meetings with the Student Advisory Committee, consisting of faculty experts in the various disciplines that make up computational biology on campus.

Along with this didactic training, faculty supervised research is an integral component of the training program. This begins in the first year when students join faculty-lead research groups for research rotations which provide an introduction to new research problems and methods in an immersive environment. Trainees conduct three rotations in their first year of study and choose a dissertation advisor at the end of the summer of their first year.

For additional information, visit genome.duke.edu/education/CBB or email cbbdgs@duke.edu.