All graduating students are awarded the PhD degree in Biomedical Sciences by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University. There are currently 131 students matriculated in the PhD Program. The total training faculty encompasses over 200 research laboratories. Mount Sinai's research faculty is still in a period of active growth in numerous important areas of research. Thus students enjoy interactions with new faculty and the novel programs and viewpoints they bring to the Graduate School throughout their stay at Mount Sinai.
All students matriculate without a formal commitment to a particular training area.
While they may affiliate as closely as they wish with a group of researchers in their initial area of interest, they are allowed and encouraged, by a strong advisory system, to consider new combinations or interests during their first year. They pursue a series of rotations through diverse research laboratories before formally choosing a PhD research mentor and one of six Multidisciplinary Training Areas. I and II, and Laboratory Rotation. Students pursue advanced courses that are recommended by their MTA and appropriate for their particular interests. Students who enter Mount Sinai with equivalent courses may seek exemption from those courses that cover material already mastered.