Discover Immunology at Hopkins

A Career Decision

If you want to pursue a Ph.D. in one of the most exciting, most rapidly advancing areas of biomedical research, the Graduate Program in Immunology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine may be exactly what you're hoping to find. Graduate training in immunology is an excellent way to launch a career in biomedical research.

A Burgeoning Field

As a field of study, immunology offers outstanding opportunities. The immune system holds the keys to the understanding of many fundamental biological processes, as well as disease states such as AIDS, autoimmunity, transplantation rejection and cancer. Basic principles of immune function are being harnessed in the development of new vaccines and in the generation of innovative immunotherapies.

A Renowned Institution

As a place to study, Hopkins brings you in partnership with talented, productive faculty and students driven by curiosity. You'll be working in state-of-the-art laboratories at an institution renowned for the quality and creativity of its biomedical research.

Immunology: A Fascinating area of study

Consider this: higher vertebrates utilize a complex, intriguing recognition system to identify and eventually eliminate a wide variety of invading bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic microorganisms.

In recent years, molecular analysis of the immune system has provided new insights into such fundamentally important biological processes as molecular recognition reactions, the control of gene expression, and mechanisms of cellular activation and differentiation.

Research in immunology has also contributed greatly to the understanding of a wide variety of infectious diseases-including AIDS, as well as diseases such as multiple sclerosis, insulin-dependent diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis-which result from deregulated immune responses. But there is much important work ahead. The Hopkins Graduate Program in Immunology provides as excellent opportunity for getting involved in this exciting field.

Hopkins: Excellence in Classroom and Laboratory

The faculty is young, energetic and deeply committed to both research and education. You'll be surrounded by excellence in the classroom and laboratory. A high faculty-student ratio ensures that students interact closely with faculty advisers during dissertation research. At the same time, you'll be part of a graduate medical environment that includes more than 300 Ph.D. students enrolled in the basic science departments of the School of Medicine, and a comparable number of graduate students enrolled in the adjacent School of Public Health.

Research facilities at Hopkins are excellent. The laboratories of most faculty members are located in a recently completed research building. Because the building is part of the School's basic science complex, our students can interact with faculty in a wide variety of biological and medical research specialties. Collaboration and working partnerships among students and faculty are a time-honored Hopkins tradition.

A Tradition of Creative Inquiry

The roots of this tradition date back to the founding of The Johns Hopkins Hospital. The opening of the Hospital in 1889, followed by the School of Medicine in 1893, marked the beginnings of an enterprise that would unite a university, medical school, and teaching hospital for the first time in America.

Intrinsic to this new concept was the idea that discourse between various specialties is integral to advancing the science of medicine. The dynamic atmosphere created by this belief continues today, and has kept Hopkins continually in the forefront of biological research, medical education, and clinical medicine for more than a century.

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