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 The Molecular Engineering and Biophysics Pathway (MEBP) is a special track available to doctoral students and students who are pursuing a PhD in Molecular Biophysics (MB), Biomedical Engineering (BME), or Energy, Environmental, and Chemical Engineering (EECE) at Washington University in St. Louis. This pathway is also available to students in the Medical Scientist Training Program. The MEBP is not a separate degree-granting program; MEBP students must fulfill all of the degree requirements of their parent graduate program.
 Molecular biophysics and molecular engineering share common goals in applied and basic science. Translational applications in these fields include the development of molecular devices, scaffolds, imaging agents, and therapeutics, for a variety of biomedical applications such as imaging, tissue regeneration, drug delivery, and drug development. Achievement of these translational objectives hinges on the ability to manipulate and control interactions and dynamics of biomolecular complexes through a quantitative understanding of thermodynamics and kinetics of macromolecular associations. Such studies are the domain of basic scientific research in molecular biophysics and engineering. The MEBP is designed to train and to provide fellowship support for the next generation of interdisciplinary researchers to exploit natural synergies between translational objectives and basic science foundations of engineering and molecular biophysics.
 Students will be admitted into the MB, BME, or EECE programs through the normal admission process specific to each program. Students who are interested in MEBP will submit a one-page statement of interest at the time of application. Members of the MB steering committee and three additional faculty members from the BME and EECE departments will evaluate this application. Each year, students from the participating graduate programs will have the opportunity to join the pathway. Offers of admission into the pathway will be made by the end of the fall semester of the first year.
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