PhD Curriculum
The Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology offers an exceptional new PhD Exchange Program to support collaborative projects - projects that are integrated into an interdisciplinary and international PhD education.
The concept of this new program is that PhD topics are structured as collaborative projects between the Center for Genomics and Systems Biology at New York University and the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine Berlin. Each PhD project is supervised jointly by a Principal Investigator from each of the two research institutions. The PhD students are expected to divide their time between Berlin and New York, taking advantage of this wealth of research expertise alongside other broader training opportunities. Funds are available for travel from Berlin for short and long term working periods in New York (or vice versa) as well as for participation in courses at both locations. Under the regular guidance of an international PhD Committee, each PhD student receives directed support to enable them to create their own research and training portfolio - a portfolio which not only equips them to conduct their own PhD research but prepares them for the world of global research and scholarship beyond.
The PhD Exchange Program is embedded into the research and training activities of the MDC Helmholtz Graduate School Molecular Cell Biology and the Department of Biology at NYU. Doctoral degree registration and examination take place at either Freie Universität Berlin or Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.
Individual research profiles of the Principal Investigators and Platform Leaders at BIMSB, MDC and NYU can be found here
Our program offers:
• interdisciplinary research training in top ranking labs
• projects that are dually mentored by a group leader from MDC and NYU
• students can spend up to fifty percent of their time at NYU
• access to and training in high-end technologies, such as deep sequencing, mass spectrometry, bioinformatics
• an extensive and comprehensive archive of animal model systems and "evo-devo" approaches
• participation in interdisciplinary classes, soft skills courses, student focussed seminars and specialist summer schools
• the regular opportunity to present your own research at the BIMSB Student Seminar in Systems Biology
• a PhD salary including full healthcare benefits according to the German public sector salary scales
• generous travel allowances to finance time spent at NYU
More about the PhD programmes at the MDC
More about the Center for Genomics and Systems Biology at NYU
