Domestic Applications: All MCB Program application materials must be submitted online by December 15. If you choose to wait until the deadline date to submit your application, there is not enough time to follow up on missing application materials. This could result in an incomplete file. Incomplete files will not be reviewed by the admissions committee.

International Applications: All required application materials must be received in Graduate Admissions Office by November 1. The MCB Program application must be complete and submitted online by November 1.

Recognizing the need for highly trained scientists conversant across disciplines, the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have collaborated to create an interdisciplinary research program, the Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program (MCB).

For more than 15 years, MCB has combined the strengths of the FHCRC together with the ten top UW departments --from Biochemistry to Pharmacology-- in order to foster an innovative and flexible education-training program for graduate students interested in biomedical problems that cross disciplinary boundaries.

What's New

Recently the MCB Program has established a relationship with the Institute for Systems Biology. This collaboration will allow access for students to labs conducting research using a systems approach to biology.

Also of note is the foundation of a new institute (March 2006), the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (ISCRM). This institute integrates research efforts at the UW and FHCRC. ISCRM proposes to develop therapies from basic stem cell research. More than half of the ISCRM researchers are also MCB Program faculty. For more information, see the ISCRM Web page.