The Bioinformatics Graduate Program offers M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees to students doing research in the field of bioinformatics. This interdisciplinary graduate program, administered by the College for Interdisciplinary Studies, combines training in both biological and computational methodologies.
The strategic objectives of the program are:
- to build on BC’s growing reputation and excellence as a leader in bioinformatics, genomics and population-based approaches to health care and
- to integrate bioinformatics with basic biology to further the current research excellence in other life science sectors in the province.
The program integrates academic centres in computer science, statistics, molecular biology, and biotechnology, with translational research groups at hospitals and at the clinical interface. Members of the Centre for High Through-put Biology (CHiBi), the Genome Science & Technology Graduate program, the department of Statistics, the Bioinformatics, Empirical & Theoretical Algorithmics Laboratory in Computer Science, the Genome Sciences Centre at the BC Cancer Agency, and the Michael Smith Laboratories have been instrumental in developing the current program. The program also integrates other departments at UBC in the faculties of Medicine, Science, Forestry, and Land and Food Systems that broadly support bioinformatics research in the life sciences.
Students can enter the program in one of two ways:
- Through the CIHR-funded bioinformatics training program which operates as a scholarship program for a select number of students who are undertaking a Bioinformatics M.Sc.degree. Students wishing to apply for these scholarships should apply directly through the website at:
http://bioinformatics.bcgsc.ca/howtoapply/ - Applying through the conventional graduate student route by securing the commitment of a supervisor, who is a faculty member of the program. The list of potential supervisors can be found at program faculty.
Program Contact:
Program Coordinator
Genome Sciences Centre, BCCA
100-570 West 7th Avenue
Vancouver, BC V5T 4S6
Tel: (604) 707-5803
Fax: (604) 876-3561
Email: bioinformaticsprogram[at]bcgsc.ca