What distinguishes SSQB from other programs in HILS? What other programs might be of interest? (Biophysics, Chemical Biology, MCO, Biological and Biomedical Sciences…)

The SSQB program is a research-focused degree program emphasizing quantitative and interdisciplinary approaches to biological problems. Systems biology seeks to explain the relationships between parts and wholes at multiple scales of complexity through integrated empirical, computational, and theoretical approaches. Our mission as a program is to help you tackle this challenge through training that advances our understanding of how evolved systems are organized.  We also aim to leverage our understanding of these relationships to make new biological systems (molecules to organisms) for a variety of purposes. Our training particularly emphasizes the development and application of formal ideas from mathematics, statistics and computer science as well as the innovation of experimental techniques to acquire new kinds of quantitative data at scale. We don't focus on a particular field of biology, instead we focus on novel approaches to biology through experimental methods development, modeling and computation. 

Our core faculty are listed on our website, and we encourage you to explore their lab pages and papers to see if your interests strongly align with any of them.

Other HILS programs focus more on training in cell biology, biochemistry, biophysics, bioinformatics and genomics with less of an integrative focus.