Our Students

Each year, around 120 DMS students begin graduate study. Current enrollment is 739. The average time for a DMS student to earn a Ph.D. is 5-6 years. Our students come from a variety of undergraduate institutions throughout the United States and from many countries. 

Students in the News

Acute Myelogenous Leukemia with maturation

One Punch Isn’t Enough

November 7, 2023

BBS student Eileen Ablondi is featured in a Harvard Medicine News article.

Cancer cells are often a mess of mutations. About 20 to 25 percent of cancers involve mutations in a complex of molecules called SWI/SNF. Yet drugs designed to block SWI/SNF activity haven’t always worked as expected.... Read more about One Punch Isn’t Enough

Liang Chang in lab

Turning Cancer on Itself

July 5, 2023

As a PhD student in biological and biomedical sciences, Chang is pioneering a new approach to cancer treatment, one that targets the genes required for the disease’s growth and survival. If he’s successful, his research could effect a paradigm shift in the treatment of some types of cancer—saving countless lives in the process.... Read more about Turning Cancer on Itself