The Mission of this program is to train new investigators with the necessary competencies and breadth of expertise needed for future biomedical research.
This is a postdoctoral research training program that originated in the Department of Pathology in 1980 under the direction of Colin J. Schwartz, MD. Linda M. McManus, PhD, assumed directorship in 1993. James D. Stockand, PhD, became Director of the program September, 2016. At this time also the program moved from the Department of Pathology to Physiology.
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