NIH F30March 20, 2023
Congratulations to Kyle Lin for his NIH F30 predocotoral fellowship!
BPHYS Program co-Director Tobin R. Sosnick is appointed William B Graham ProfessorMarch 01, 2023
Congratulations to BPHYS program co-director Tobin R. Sosnick, Professor and Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics and Fellow, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering on being appointed William B. Graham Professor.
Application for 2024 admissionsDecember 01, 2022
The application for admissions to the 2023 class is now closed, the application for 2024 admissions will open in September 2023.
2022-2023 David Grier PrizeDecember 10, 2021
This year’s David Grier Prize for Innovative Research in Biophysical Sciences was awarded to Biophysical Sciences graduate student, Daozheng Gong. The prize recognizes new and exciting work done in the lab of any mentor in the Biophysical Sciences Program. Daozheng, along with four other finalists, presented his proposal, Developing a novel ultra-rapid 2-photon microscope to study neural activity of >2M cell/s in large volumes using multiplexed targeted beamlets and “Quantum light”, at a mini-symposium in December. Congratulations, Daozheng!
2021 Biophysical Sciences Research Proposal PrizeOctober 20, 2021
Congratulations to Andrew Molina! His proposal, "Characterizing the Antigenicity of Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Variants" has been selected to receive the annual Biophysical Sciences Research Proposal Prize. The intent of this award is to recognize students for their excellent ideas for Biophysical Research Immersion class projects.
New Assistant ProfessorJune 24, 2021
Congratulations to Josh Riback, recruited from his postdoc at Princeton to a Tenure Track Faculty Postion at Baylor University. Josh has received a Recruitment of First-Time, Tenure-Track Faculty Members Award from The Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas.
The University of Chicago is offering a fundamentally interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Biophysical Sciences.
Our program is unique. Students in the Biophysical Sciences Program select two mentors with disparate expertise from amongst the UChicago faculty and launch an interdisciplinary project between these two research groups. In this way, we enable top students to explore the deep interface between the physical and the biological views of natural science. Our students come from a wide array of undergraduate majors spanning the biological and physical sciences, but all combine a strong interest in biological science (broadly interpreted) with expertise in Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, and/or Engineering. We provide our students with the research opportunities, training, community, and facilities they need to knit together existing disciplines and to create entirely new fields. Today, our program integrates over 70 faculty members’ laboratory groups across the Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences, Clinical Medicine, and Engineering.
