Domestic Applications: All MCB Program application materials must be submitted online by December 15. If you choose to wait until the deadline date to submit your application, there is not enough time to follow up on missing application materials. This could result in an incomplete file. Incomplete files will not be reviewed by the admissions committee.

International Applications: All required application materials must be received in Graduate Admissions Office by November 1. The MCB Program application must be complete and submitted online by November 1.

Recognizing the need for highly trained scientists conversant across disciplines, the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have collaborated to create an interdisciplinary research program, the Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program (MCB).

For more than 15 years, MCB has combined the strengths of the FHCRC together with the ten top UW departments --from Biochemistry to Pharmacology-- in order to foster an innovative and flexible education-training program for graduate students interested in biomedical problems that cross disciplinary boundaries.

News & Events

Minhui Lee, Vasioukhin Lab, will defend her dissertation titled "The functional role of Lethal giant larvae proteins in mammalian development" on Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. in Pelton Auditorium, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Jason Neil Pitt, an MCB student in the Ferre-D'Amare lab, will defend his dissertation titled "Structural Analysis and Engineering of RNA Ligase Ribozymes" on Monday, October 6, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. in Pelton Auditorium, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.