Immunology Training Program

Predoctoral Trainees

Predoctoral student training combines research, coursework, and scientific learning in a rigorous training program to teach our students critical thinking, scientific approach, effective communication, and science ethics. Trainees are appointed for a one-year period that is renewable for a second year upon demonstration of satisfactory progress during the first year as deemed by the Training Grant Selection and Steering Committee.

  • Predoctoral trainees who enter our T32 Training Program have completed at least one, but no more than three, years of graduate school, and will have chosen a dissertation advisor for their doctoral research.
  • Students complete the bulk of their formal coursework (including the courses that are required for our T32 Training Program) during their 1st year and take electives during their 2nd year.
  • Students in the labs of our training faculty who are in other graduate programs have typically also taken the core courses required for our T32 program during their 1st year of graduate school, reflecting their interest in immunology.

Predoctoral trainees are selected from the following programs: