Biomedical and Biological Sciences
Field Description
The Cornell University Biomedical and Biological Sciences (BBS) Graduate Program is an interdisciplinary program consisting of outstanding graduate students conducting state-of-the-art basic, clinical and translational life sciences research alongside their world-renowned faculty mentors and other research professionals. Housed in the heart of biomedical research at the Cornell-Ithaca campus in the College of Veterinary Medicine, the BBS program takes advantage of outstanding research facilities, the vibrant Cornell campus and strong links to the Weill Cornell Medical College campus in New York City. The BBS Program fosters a nurturing, student-centered community of scholars that is accessible, engaging and committed to ensuring that our graduate students reach their full potential in research, teaching and professional development. Students in the BBS field will select Special Committee chairs associated with one of five concentrations: Immunology and Infectious Disease, Molecular and Cellular Medicine, Population Medicine and Epidemiology, Translational Medicine, and Zoology and Wildlife Conservation.
Population Medicine and Epidemiology represents the study of health and disease in a population and the underlying factors that lead to these conditions. The goal of this research is to prevent the spread and/or future incidents of illness. As such, it is considered the cornerstone of public health, production medicine, and preventive medicine.
Immunology and Infectious Disease: The concentration of Immunology and Infectious Disease has a substantial cadre of faculty members and students working in the areas of infection and immunity, cellular immunology, immune regulation, immunogenetics, and immunopathology. There are also members currently carrying out studies in the areas of immunotoxicology, membrane biochemistry, developmental immunology, immunoparasitology, and related fields.
Molecular and Cellular Medicine faculty and trainees are engaged in investigations of fundamental cellular processes and the mechanisms that control them in health and disease. Research projects range from molecular interactions, protein folding, and membrane biophysics to development and function of organ systems and whole animals. Fundamental research, using cutting-edge technologies, enables researchers at Cornell to make significant advances in broad scientific disciplines such as cell and developmental biology, genetics and genomics, neurobiology, pharmacology, and physiology.
Translational Medicine: Translational medicine seeks to leverage basic science discovery for the development of new therapies that will improve the health of animals and humans. Basic scientists and clinicians partner in drug and biomarker discovery, stem cell and regenerative medicine, and development of imaging technology to tackle problems in reproductive biology, infectious disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and other clinically relevant areas.
Zoology and Wildlife Conservation integrates two broad fields of biology: animal biology and conservation biology. Opportunities exist for study and research in comparative and functional anatomy, developmental biology, and comparative and experimental embryology. The survival of threatened and endangered species requires innovative and integrative ideas and approaches to wildlife conservation, and our faculty are those innovators – conservation studies focus on individual animals, species, and ecosystems.
Contact Information
Website: http://vet.cornell.edu/bbsEmail: BBS@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-253-3276
S3-009 Schurman Hall
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Subject and Degrees
Biomedical Sciences
Concentrations by Subject
Biomedical Sciences
- immunology and infectious disease
- molecular and cellular medicine
- population medicine and epidemiology
- translational medicine
- zoology and wildlife conservation
Faculty
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Research Interests: Molecular Nutrition
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: translational medicine
- Research Interests: My lab has 3 main areas of focus in Veterinary Medicine: Radiation Dosimetry and Treatment Planning; Medical Image Processing and Analysis; and Medical Physics Training and Education. I have keen interests in machine learning methods in radiation oncology, stereotactic ablative radiation therapies and hypofractionation, and medical imaging processing and analysis.
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; zoology and wildlife conservation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: zoology and wildlife conservation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine
- Research Interests: infection and immunity, genetics and genomics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: zoology and wildlife conservation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Research Interests: immunology and infectious disease, molecular and cellular medicine, translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: population medicine and epidemiology
- Research Interests: Population Medicine & Epidemiology
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine; zoology and wildlife conservation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine; population medicine and epidemiology; translational medicine; zoology and wildlife conservation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: translational medicine
- Research Interests: translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: zoology and wildlife conservation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine
- Research Interests: Protein redox chemistry; electron-transfer reactions; mechanisms of signal transduction; circadian clocks; protein photosensors; bacterial chemotaxis; receptor signaling; nitric oxide enzymology; metallobiochemistry
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; population medicine and epidemiology
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: zoology and wildlife conservation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine; population medicine and epidemiology
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: translational medicine
- Research Interests: Translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Research Interests: molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Research Interests: biochemistry & cell biology, stem cell biology
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease
- Research Interests: infection and immunity
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Research Interests: Immunology & Infectious Disease; Molecular & Cellular Medicine; Translational Medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Research Interests: translational medicine; immunology and infection disease; molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Research Interests: molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine; population medicine and epidemiology
- Research Interests: population medicine and epidemiology; molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine; population medicine and epidemiology; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: population medicine and epidemiology; zoology and wildlife conservation
- Research Interests: epidemiology, wildlife conservation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Research Interests: immunology and infectious disease; translational medicine; molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine
- Research Interests: Regulation of immunity at tissue sites of infection and autoimmunity, immune imaging, intravital multiphoton microscopy
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; population medicine and epidemiology; zoology and wildlife conservation
- Research Interests: epidemiology, infection and immunity, wildlife conservation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: zoology and wildlife conservation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; translational medicine; zoology and wildlife conservation
- Research Interests: infection & immunity, epidemiology, wildlife conservation, genetics & genomics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: population medicine and epidemiology
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Research Interests: molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: population medicine and epidemiology
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; population medicine and epidemiology; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Research Interests: Molecular and cellular medicine, translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; translational medicine
- Research Interests: immunology and infectious disease; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Research Interests: Immunology and Infectious Disease, Molecular and Cellular Medicine, Translational Medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Research Interests: Molecular and Cellular Medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: zoology and wildlife conservation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine
- Research Interests: biochemistry & cell biology, cancer biology, infection and immunity
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Research Interests: Molecular and cellular medicine; Translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine
- Research Interests: Immunology and infectious disease, molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine
- Research Interests: vascular biology, cancer biology, lymphology and immunology
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Research Interests: molecular and cellular medicine, translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine; population medicine and epidemiology; translational medicine
Eirene Chloe Markenscoff-Papadimitriou
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Research Interests: molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: population medicine and epidemiology
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease
- Research Interests: Immunology and infectious disease
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; population medicine and epidemiology; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Research Interests: Molecular and Cellular Medicine, Translational Medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: population medicine and epidemiology; translational medicine; zoology and wildlife conservation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine; zoology and wildlife conservation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: translational medicine
- Research Interests: Neuroscience
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; population medicine and epidemiology; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: zoology and wildlife conservation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; population medicine and epidemiology; zoology and wildlife conservation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease
- Research Interests: Immunology and infectious disease
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: translational medicine; zoology and wildlife conservation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; population medicine and epidemiology; zoology and wildlife conservation
- Research Interests: Immunology and infectious disease; population medicine and epidemiology; zoology and wildlife conservation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine; population medicine and epidemiology; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Research Interests: Molecular and Cellular Medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: population medicine and epidemiology; zoology and wildlife conservation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine; zoology and wildlife conservation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Research Interests: biomedical sciences, molecular and cellular medicine, translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: zoology and wildlife conservation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: zoology and wildlife conservation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; population medicine and epidemiology; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Research Interests: molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Research Interests: neuroscience
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: population medicine and epidemiology
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; molecular and cellular medicine; population medicine and epidemiology; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; population medicine and epidemiology
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: immunology and infectious disease; population medicine and epidemiology
- Research Interests: Immunology and infectious disease; population medicine and epidemiology
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine; translational medicine
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Biomedical Sciences: molecular and cellular medicine