Training Outcomes 

Of the 57 students who received training from the program during the past 15 grant years, 16 are presently in various stages of pre-doctoral training while 41 have graduated either with a PhD (38) or MS (3) degree.  Among the graduates, 9 (22%) are receiving post-doctoral training in academia, 3 (7%) have progressed to tenure-line faculty positions in academia, 8 (20%) are in industrial positions in various capacities, 3 (7%) are in teaching positions in academia, 5 (12%) are in medical school/residency, 7 (17%) are in other professions (e.g., grants officer, journal editor, technology transfer officer), 3 (7%) graduated with a Masters degree, and the status of 2 (5%) trainees are presently unknown, as the program has been unable to establish contact with these students (however, both students had secured post-doctoral positions in academia following graduation). The time-to-degree (TTD) statistic for trainees who graduated during the past 10 years is 6.5 years.

CAREER OUTCOMES OF TRAINEES

Get more information at the level of individual PhD programs and by discipline

Publications

It is recommended that you submit your peer-reviewed final manuscripts, accepted for publication, to PubMed Central(PMC). PMC submission assistance can be found here. Below you will find templates on how to acknowledge your funding source; please note the test is different for NIH funded trainees and TGS funded cluster trainees.

• NIH Funded Trainees - Publication Acknowledgement:  Please use this template for publications relating to research done while supported by MBTP T32 Grant, “[Name] was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health Training Grant (T32GM140995) through Northwestern University's Molecular Biophysics Training Program.” For trainees who were appointed from 2020-2021 and reappointed from 2021-2022 please also list grant number T32GM008382.  Any trainees appointed prior to 2021 will list only T32GM008382.

• TGS Funded Cluster Members - Publication Acknowledgement:  Please use this template for publications relating to research done while supported by the MBTP Cluster, “[Your name] was supported in part by the Northwestern University Graduate School Cluster in Biotechnology, Systems, and Synthetic Biology, which is affiliated with the Molecular Biophysics Training Program.”

Professional Development and Inclusion

The Graduate School (TGS) hosts a portal for exploring resources and programming to contribute to the professional development of our graduate students. TGS also collates a range of career development resources that are available to MBTP trainees. Additional resources (some of which are described elsewhere on this site) include:

• AccessibleNU
• Office of Fellowships
• Bioprofessionals
• Northwestern Career Advancement
• Campus Inclusion and Community
• Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS)
• Dean of Students Office
• Multicultural Student affairs
• Searle Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning
• Kellogg Management for Scientists and Engineers program
• TGS portal for outreach and volunteerism opportunities

Core Facilities

Northwestern maintains numerous core facilities for research in the life sciences and bioengineering. These shared research facilities, beyond the laboratory facilities of the training faculty members, are described in detail on the Core Facilities Administration page of the Northwestern University Office of Research website.