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BBS
Track in
Physiology and Integrative Medical Biology
Physiology
is the dynamic study of life. A physiololgist investigates how biological
structures and machines work at the molecular, cellular, organ, or organ
system level. Because a physiologist also explores normal human body
functions, research in physiology is closely intertwined with medicine:
understanding and remediating human disease.
The
Physiology & Integrative Medical Biology Track is designed to provide
an educational environment in cell, systems, and integrative physiology.
The Track is a home base for developing interdisciplinary approaches
to understanding normal biology and the biology of disease states. The
future of medical biology is to understand not only human genes and
the proteins they encode, but also how these proteins and associated
processes are integrated to produce the specific functions displayed
by the wide array of cells, tissues and organs. This integrative biological
approach ranges from single molecules to the whole body. Studying complex
living organisms is often the best way - and in some cases, the only
way - to understand dynamic biological processes. Training in integrative
approaches to understand the biology of organisms includes the study
of disease-causing genes in the pathophysiology of disease. An integrated
approach to disease is crucial to discover new therapies as well as
the effects of therapy on disease.
Faculty
of the Track consists of scientists with a wide range of research interests.
Students in the Track will receive training in integrative approaches
to understand the biology of organisms and the pathophysiology of disease.
This multidimensional Track includes activities in integrative and systems
physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, translational research, small
animal physiology, biomedical engineering, and biophysics. The Track
also integrates information from genetics, functional genomics and functional
proteomics into whole animal and human biology.
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