Domestic Applications: All MCB Program application materials must be submitted online by December 1. 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. An incomplete file includes missing Letters of Recommendation, GRE Scores, and transcript information. 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. 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. An incomplete file includes missing Letters of Recommendation, transcript information, TOEFL and GRE Scores. Incomplete files will not be reviewed by the admissions committee.

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.

Dissertation Announcements

Brian Schultz
Chamberlain Lab, will defend his dissertation titled "Properties and Techniques of Intravascular rAAV6 Gene Delivery to Striated  Muscle"
Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009
Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Hogness Auditorium, Magnuson Health Sciences Center, Room A-420.

Jessica Young
La Spada lab, will defend her dissertation titled "Autophagy in the Nervous System: Regulation and Role in Neurodegenerative Proteinopathies"
Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009
Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Foege Building, Room S-060.

Eva Ma
Raible Lab, will defend her dissertation titled "Regeneration of mechanosensory hair cells in the zebrafish lateral line"
Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Location: Room T-625, Magnuson Health Sciences Center.

Joel Nelson
Bomsztyk Lab, will defend his dissertation titled "Transcriptional and chromatin profiling using chromatin immunoprecipitation"
Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: Orin Smith Auditorium, South Lake Union Administration Building.

Christine McBeth
Roland Strong Lab, will defend her dissertation titled "New twists in immune recognition revealed by a forbidden alpha/beta TCR"
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2009 Time: 11:00 a.m.
Location: Pelton Auditorium, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center