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an international graduate school promoting interdisciplinary education
The "Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine (SGBM)" offers a dynamic interdisciplinary training program that prepares students for future scientific challenges. Its ultimate goal is to create a top notch "Life Scientist of the Future" who can assimilate knowledge and techniques from various disciplines as well as combine basic with translational research, biotechnology and product/drug development. SGBM aims to achieve this prestigious goal by following four major strategies:
• elaborate on existing research and teaching programs in life sciences and introduce additional interdisciplinary courses in "Novel Technologies" and "Soft Skills" and common progress reports and annual retreats between the different research disciplines
• implement an MD/PhD program which allows medical doctors to perform a PhD on projects at the interface of basic and translational research
• set up an exchange program which allows the best doctoral students to participate in research and teaching activities at partner universities abroad and at biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.
• perform one's research bearing in mind the DFG guidelines related to good scientific practice.
Our graduate school is built on superb research and teaching programs in Protein Structure and Function, Synthetic Biology and Signalling, Developmental Biology, Neurosciences, Immunology and Virology, Molecular Medicine and Molecular Plant Sciences. It has been established in close collaboration with several Research Training Groups (RTGs), an International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS), Collaborative Research Centres (CRCs) and the Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience Freiburg (BCF). These training groups and research centers are led by internationally renowned scientists who are members of our graduate school. Doctoral students work in a high-profile research environment and attend lectures, seminars, workshops, symposia, regional meetings and annual retreats. The entire program is run in English. An overview is available as a flyer. Furthermore, many SGBM members are also participating in the Cluster of Excellence bioss (Centre for Biological Signalling Studies). Both SGBM and bioss are very generously funded by the German Research Foundation as part of the Excellence Initiative.
The University of Freiburg has a longstanding tradition in excellence and several Nobel laureates have been associated with this university, for more details please see brochure.
An insight on the aims of our program is available in the form of a short film commissioned by the DFG. A similar feature presents the research carried out within bioss.
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