Welcome to the Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences at North Carolina State University. This website will provide you with information about our department, its faculty and their research programs, and graduate programs affiliated with departmental faculty. This website is directed especially to prospective students who are considering applying to graduate school at NC State. You will find useful information that will facilitate your application to graduate school at NC State, and will assist you in learning about the research opportunities available to you in the Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences.

The Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences consists of 36 faculty who have a diversity of research and teaching interests. Included among our faculty are 11 clinical faculty, affording students the opportunity to participate in research projects with a direct clinical correlation to veterinary and/or human medicine. Our research faculty are housed in a new biomedical Research Building with 104,000 gross sq. ft., which opened in the summer of 2004. Thus, new, state-of-the-art research facilities are available to the research faculty in the department. Included in the new Research Building is a transgenic mouse facility, permitting the opportunity for graduate students to participate in research projects related to mouse and animal genomics.

A number of graduate programs are available to students interested in working with faculty in the Department of Molecular Biomedical Sciences. The Comparative Biomedical Sciences graduate program in CVM consists of several different "tracks", allowing students to focus their research in the areas of cell biology, infectious diseases, pharmacology, pathology, and population medicine. Other graduate programs with which departmental faculty are affiliated include programs in immunology, physiology, and functional genomics.

North Carolina State University is located in the city of Raleigh, the state capital of North Carolina. Raleigh is located in the center of the state of North Carolina, and forms part of the Research Triangle. The city of Raleigh has a population of 300,000, with the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill metropolitan area having a population in excess of 1.1 million. Raleigh is conveniently located 2 hours from the beaches to the east, and 3 hours from the Smoky Mountains to the west, thus offering its residents a diversity of outdoor recreational activities. The triangle area also offers many opportunities to be a spectator to college, minor league and major league sports. The triangle area boasts 3 ACC universities, minor league baseball and the NHL Carolina Hurricanes. Culturally, Raleigh has much to offer. There are several Art museums, the interactive museum Exploris, and the North Carolina Museums of History and Natural Sciences. Raleigh also boasts the Raleigh Symphony Orchestra and the North Carolina Symphony, the Carolina Ballet, several opera companies, and many other performing arts. Other attractions in Raleigh include an historic City Market, the State Farmers Market, and annual events such as the North Carolina State Fair. It is little wonder that Raleigh was named by Money magazine as the #1 city to live in the South.

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