Teaching Mission
To provide innovative teaching and mentoring for faculty, research fellows and graduate and
medical students. To foster independent learning, critical thinking, communication skills, the creative synthesis
of new ideas based on experimental and practical knowledge and mastery of the experimental method and techniques.
Interdisciplinary Biomedical Graduate Program
The Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics is one of many departments at the University
of Pittsburgh that participate in the School of Medicine's
Interdisciplinary Biomedical Graduate Program. This program
offers graduate students an interdisciplinary core program and the opportunity to choose among six doctoral degree
granting programs for advanced research.
MMG plays an integral role in the training and mentoring of these graduate students, and has over
thirty faculty members actively involved in one or more programs. Two specific programs,
Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and
Molecular Virology and Microbiology,
are also directed by MMG faculty members Drs. Martin Schmidt and
Michael Parniak respectively.
Graduate Programs in which MMG Faculty Participate
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