Graduate Programs | UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center

The MuSCLE T32 program is designed to mold predoctoral students into graduates equipped with the skills and knowledge essential for supporting MusculoSkeletal (MSK) health. The program emphasizes team mentoring, and brings together experts in biomedical engineering, materials science, immunology, and both basic and clinical faculty. 

Students receive faculty mentorship from researchers in a variety of departments, including toxicology, molecular biology, cancer, genotoxicity, metabolic disorders, epigenetics, and more. This program utilizes the resources and research of multiple UC Davis centers to promote and synergize approaches to disease prevention and public health. 

Supporting students engaged in pre-doctoral training at the chemistry-biology interface, the Chemical Biology Program draws faculty from six different departments and five different colleges. The program prepares scholars for careers in the biomedical workforce with the communication and management skills necessary to direct research programs that integrate approaches across the two disciplines.

Pre-doctoral and post-doctoral scholars will grow into independent investigators through the Comparative Lung Biology and Medicine Program’s interactive research environments, innovative and competitive research themes and projects, and training opportunities.

Trainees explore the concepts of drug discovery and development from target identification into the clinic. Trainees receive focused and student-tailored training in pharmacology principles. The program exposes students to novel drugs and possible therapeutics for cardiovascular, neurological, immunological diseases and cancer.

In this program, trainees gain a breadth of knowledge, research training, and career skills, that prepares them for a successful career in the national biomedical workforce. The program integrates Graduate Group coursework, Ph.D. thesis research in individual laboratories, and professional development experiences with a set of coherent training activities. 

The ARC-MD program provides medical students with foundational skills and professional development that promote a successful career as a physician scientist. The five-year program provides students with research and career mentorship, a unique curriculum, and community engagement within a supportive, longitudinal learning community.

This program prepares students with dual D.V.M.-Ph.D. degrees to become compassionate and exceptional veterinarian-scientists involved in basic and translational research for the advancement of health in people, animals, and the environment.

The STAR Program identifies, nurtures, and supports veterinary students through work with faculty mentors in all aspects of veterinary and biomedical research including scientific dialogue and communication, library and literature search and research , laboratory conduct and professionalism, research ethics, and grantsmanship.