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The Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences (formerly the Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences) at the
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is a division of the
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, leading to the Ph.D. degree and, in coordination with the Medical Scientist Training Program, combined M.D./Ph.D. degrees. The institute sets the policies for its admissions, curriculum, stipend levels, student evaluations and Ph.D. requirements. In the Chronicle of Higher Education's 2007 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index, the Vilcek Institute ranked as the number 8 Biomedical Sciences program, nationally. Four of the Vilcek Institute's programs also ranked in the top ten of their respective disciplines.


Curriculum

Vilcek Institute's degree programs are: * Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics * Biomaterials Science * Biomedical Imaging * Biostatistics * Cell & Molecular Biology * Computational Biology * Developmental Genetics * Epidemiology * Immunology and Inflammation * Parasitology * Microbiology * Molecular Oncology & Immunology * Molecular Pharmacology * Neuroscience & Physiology * Pathobiology * Stem Cell Biology * Structural Biology In their first year, all students take half of their course work in a core curriculum (biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, cell signaling, bio-informatics and genetics) and the remainder in a wide variety of electives. First year students are also required to complete at least 3 three-month lab rotations. By the end of the first year, students must select a thesis mentor and program. Then, after becoming a member of a specific program, students must meet the academic requirements of that program. At the end of the second year, Vilcek students must also pass qualifying examinations before moving on to thesis research. The average time to degree at the Vilcek Institute is 5.4 years.


Facilities

The Vilcek Institute is housed at the Langone Medical Center, which also houses the
NYU School of Medicine The New York University Grossman School of Medicine is a medical school of New York University, a private research university in New York City. It was founded in 1841 and is one of two medical schools of the university, the other being the NYU Gr ...
, Tisch Hospital, the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine and the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine. The Vilcek Institute's faculty consists of >180 faculty members at the Medical Center whose appointments are in basic science or clinical departments, as well as associated faculty located at the main campus (Applied Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Sciences, Center for Neural Science and Physics).


Name controversy

Following allegations of mass addiction caused by the promotion of opioids by the Sackler family and associated companies, NYU announces that "continuing to use the Sackler name as inconsistent with our institution’s values and incompatible with our mission, which is dedicated to patient care, education, and research to improve human health." The school was renamed the Vilcek Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences.


Notable people


Faculty

* Rodolfo Llinas, Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology * Martin J. Blaser, Professor, M.D., 1973, established the Foundation for Bacteria * Richard W. Tsien, Director of the NYU Neuroscience Institute, a world leader in the study of calcium channels and neurotransmission


Alumni

* Jan Vilcek, Professor of Microbiology, inventor of Remicade *
Severo Ochoa Severo Ochoa de Albornoz (; 24 September 1905 – 1 November 1993) was a Spanish physician and biochemist, and winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Arthur Kornberg for their discovery of "the mechanisms in the ...
, Professor of Biochemistry, Nobel laureate for the synthesis of RNA *
Arthur Kornberg Arthur Kornberg (March 3, 1918 – October 26, 2007) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1959 for the discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic a ...
, student of Severo Ochoa, Nobel laureate for discovery of the mechanisms of DNA synthesis * Homer Smith, kidney research and the discovery of insulin * Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig, C.V. Starr Professor of Medical and Molecular Parasitology, breakthroughs in Malaria vaccinations


References

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