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MD/PhD students at SUNY Upstate Medical University participate in three program-specific courses. Please consult our MD/PhD Calendar for specific dates and times.

Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series – WALS

Each Wednesday the NIH telecasts a live seminar from the NIH facilities in Bethesda, MD. These seminars are presented by prominent scientists and reflect cutting-edge research. Our MSI and MSII students select one of the speakers and present an introductory seminar in the hour prior to the actual live telecast from NIH. Our students have an opportunity to learn about that day's speaker and his or her research in a casual, journal club setting.

MD/PhD Grand Rounds: Integrating Clinical Care and the Study of Disease

All MD/PhD students participate in this required course. Students in their PhD years and students in MSIII and MSIV present cases in a Grand Rounds format.

Grand Rounds 2011-2012 begins October 5th, 2011. Be sure to check the MD/PhD Calendar for the scheduled classes. The link to the calendar is on this page.

Some of the Topics that were covered in the 2010-2011 Grand Rounds course:

  • New Therapies in Cystic Fibrosis
  • Interferon Lambda in Chronic Hepatitis C: Prognostic and Therapeutic Value
  • New Potential Therapeutics for the Treatment of ALS
  • Plasticity/Reorganization of the Visual System
  • Genome-wide Aberrations in Cancer: understanding the problem better

Special Events

Charles R. Ross PhD Research Poster Day: This annual event allows students from all four colleges at SUNY Upstate to share their research findings with each other and with the public.

Biomedical Sciences Research Retreat: This day-long retreat in the Finger Lakes region celebrates research accomplishments at SUNY Upstate with faculty and student presentations and poster sessions.

Neurofest: This two-day event sponsored by the Neuroscience program includes a poster session and symposium featuring neuroscience research from throughout central New York.

SCID-HU Mouse Models Cconference: This annual spring meeting, hosted by the Microbiology and Immunology Department, highlights the latest research utilizing humanized severe combined immunodeficient (SCID) mouse models of viral disease and cancer.