The Graduate Program is research oriented and students, whether Master's or Doctoral candidates, are expected to engage in fundamental research after their admission into the Program. Faculty members, many of whom are also members of the Graduate Programs in Neuroscience and Cell Biology, undertake research in a wide range of basic and clinically-relevant areas. Special research areas include cell and development biology, cancer biology, membrane transport and biophysics, cellular immunology and the morphological aspects of cell structure and function. Click to see a list of Faculty members and their research interests.

Potential applicants should note that the Division of Anatomy & Cell Biology will not support an application by a graduate student enrolled in the Graduate Program for entry into an MD or DMD program until the student's Supervisory Committee has verified that the student has completed his/her research program in the Department.

In addition to the facilities in the various research laboratories, the Department has a modern and fully equipped tissue culture laboratory, electronic and mechanical workshops, photographic dark rooms and such major items of equipment as high speed centrifuges and gamma and liquid scintillation counters which are available for use by the members of the Department. There is a reading room and a new seminar room which is used for the extensive series of seminars held throughout the academic year, to which all the members of the Department, faculty as well as graduate students, are encouraged to attend. The possibility of interactions between laboratories and between the Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences and other University departments is also encouraged at all levels.

Graduate students in Physiology engage, as a group, in many non-academic activities. These include sports activities such as intramural events, graduate student softball league, beach volleyball as well as cycling, hiking and camping trips.