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Graduate students in the five programs under the Quantitative Biosciences Consortium (QBC) umbrella are learning to apply quantitative experimental techniques, physical models, and mathematical analyses to understand the complex mechanisms that underlie biological processes.</p> <p>While training in their chosen fields, these students work across disciplines to learn various perspectives on research problems and various approaches to research questions. They develop expertise in an area of research in the context of other fields in the quantitative biosciences.</p> <p>Because UCSF is a dedicated health sciences campus, the mechanisms studied within the five programs are often those that function properly in health and are dysfunctional and often unregulated in disease.</p> <p class="eyecatching">The biological and quantitative sciences—once largely separate—are now combining forces to reveal and measure the intricacies of biological processes. Increasingly, mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, chemists, and engineers work alongside systems biologists, geneticists, pharmacy and medical scientists, and others to quantify—in powerful new ways—the actions and interactions of biology. QBC gives this union a strong, unified voice across UCSF.</p> <h2>Goals</h2> <ul> <li> <p>Champion robust PhD training across UCSF in the quantitative biosciences.</p> </li> <li> <p>Support curriculum development at UCSF in the quantitative biosciences</p> </li> <li> <p>Create a focus that draws the best new faculty members and students in the quantitative biosciences to UCSF</p> </li> <li> <p>Provide a common physical space for students within the five graduate programs to meet, study, discuss, and debate new ideas in the quantitative biosciences</p> </li> </ul></div></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="sidebar-first"> <div class="region region-sidebar-first"> <div id="block-domain-menu-block-main-menu" class="block block-domain-menu-block"> <div class="content"> <div class="skip primary"> <a href="#postnav">Skip primary navigation</a> </div> <div class="menu-block-wrapper menu-block-main-menu menu-name-33a65c1c41e98e874d553e463ef1e79b parent-mlid-0 menu-level-1"> <ul class="menu"><li class="first leaf menu-mlid-819421"><a href="/" tabindex="0">Home</a></li> <li class="expanded active-trail active menu-mlid-819426"><a href="/about" class="active-trail active" tabindex="0">About</a><ul class="menu"><li class="first leaf menu-mlid-819441"><a href="/about/programs" tabindex="0">Programs</a></li> <li class="leaf menu-mlid-819446"><a href="/about/quantitative-biosciences-training" tabindex="0">Quantitative Biosciences Training at UCSF</a></li> <li class="leaf menu-mlid-821751"><a href="/about/umbrella" tabindex="0">Umbrella</a></li> <li class="leaf menu-mlid-854516"><a href="/about/funding" tabindex="0">Funding</a></li> <li class="last leaf menu-mlid-854521"><a href="/about/administration" tabindex="0">Administration</a></li> </ul></li> <li class="collapsed menu-mlid-819431"><a href="/people" tabindex="0">People</a></li> <li class="collapsed menu-mlid-819436"><a href="/seminars-events" tabindex="0">Seminars and Events</a></li> <li class="leaf menu-mlid-827821"><a href="/news" tabindex="0">News</a></li> <li class="leaf menu-mlid-833496"><a href="/tour" tabindex="0">Mission Bay Tour</a></li> <li class="last leaf menu-mlid-836566"><a href="/support" tabindex="0">Support the Program</a></li> </ul></div> <span id="postnav"></span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <!-- /content-inner /content --> </div> <!-- /main --> </div> <!-- /page --> <div role="complementary" class="footer-make-a-gift-and-quote no-footer-quote"> <div class="footer-make-a-gift"> <a href="https://tiny.ucsf.edu/givephdstudentfellowships">Make a gift</a> </div> </div> <div class="footer-wrapper-outer" role="contentinfo"> <div class="footer-wrapper-inner"> <div class="footer-site-names-and-disclaimer"> <div id="parent-1-name-wrapper"> <div id="parent-2-name">Administered by the <a href="https://pharmacy.ucsf.edu/">UCSF School of Pharmacy</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="footer menu"> <div class="region region-footer"> <div id="block-menu-footer" class="block block-menu"> <h2>Footer Menu</h2> <div class="content"> <ul class="menu"><li class="first leaf"><a href="https://pharmacy.ucsf.edu/suggestions" tabindex="0">Suggestions</a></li> <li class="first leaf"><a href="https://pharmacy.ucsf.edu/support?reporturl=https%3A//qbc.ucsf.edu/about" tabindex="0">Report a problem</a></li> <li class="leaf"><a href="/./contact" tabindex="0">Contact us</a></li> <li class="first leaf"><a href="https://websites.ucsf.edu/digital-accessibility" tabindex="0">Accessibility</a></li> <li class="leaf"><a href="https://www.ucsf.edu/website-privacy-policy" tabindex="0">Privacy policy</a></li> <li class="leaf"><a href="https://websites.ucsf.edu/website-terms-use" tabindex="0">Terms of use</a></li> <li class="leaf"><a href="https://websites.ucsf.edu/azlist" tabindex="0">A-Z website list</a></li> <li class="last leaf"><a href="/saml_login?destination=about" tabindex="0">Log in</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="footer-social"> <div class="item-list"></div> </div> <div class="copyright"> © 2002–2024 The Regents of the University of California </div> </div> </div> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://qbc.ucsf.edu/sites/pharm.ucsf.edu/files/advagg_js/js__GM3GJPR36rRIz0TRkjC5OQwrioSyN9aoYRivDhCO_AM__qAl84FcCv2jyN22yFGS5Oc85cjd9zKX6p_cFNLGhe-M__TadQwxlrXSZfPHY5Dx7O3IoqCgJtotCMHedmeroi_t8.js" async="async"></script> </body> </html>