University of Arizona

Application Procedures

The BMCB program recruits students in several ways.

• Students interested in the Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology Should apply via ABBS
• Students interested in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics in CBC should visit the Biochemistry Graduate application website
• Students interested in the Systems or Computational Biology should contact the relevant faculty

Arizona Biological and Biomedical Sciences (ABBS)

program, which integrates recruiting and admissions for five PhD programs in biological and biomedical sciences. Students are admitted to the ABBS with no formal commitment to a particular Ph.D program. Students are free to rotate in laboratories of faculty associated with any of the programs, providing maximum flexibility for students to explore various views of studies. At the end of rotations, students will matriculate into of the five graduate programs based upon their interests and the laboratory that they enter.

Visit the ABBS website (http://abbs.arizona.edu) for more information and application instructions.

NOTE: When application review begins in January, your application will be reviewed with the unofficial documents uploaded with your application. If you are invited to visit campus in February, you will be expected to provide official documents at that time, which will complete your application review. You will be notified by email if additional documents are necessary to complete your application. Please do not mail documents to the department unless they have been requested from you.

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