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.