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Description
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As of February 2000, the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awarded five grants to support
the development of serious, high-quality professional
Master's degrees in bioinformatics/computational molecular
biology. The Sloan foundation believes that two-year,
course-intensive degrees in this new field, which is of
rapidly-increasing interest among biotechnology,
pharmaceutical, and academic employers, offers attractive
career opportunities to those who wish to work in scientific
research and development. Such professional degrees are now
rare in most scientific fields, but might be seen as
analogous to professional degrees that have long been highly
prized in professions such as engineering, business and
law.
The program is aimed at
students who have recently earned Bachelor's degrees in
either biological fields or computational fields; current
employees of biotech and pharmaceutical companies who are
seeking to upgrade or expand their skills and
qualifications, or move out of the laboratory environment
while still remaining in research; and recent graduate
degree holders from other fields (e.g. mathematics,
statistics, medicine, epidemiology, and computer science and
engineering) who wish to apply their analytic skills to
molecular biology and genome research.
It is anticipated that most
of the programs will be structured as intensive two-year
graduate degrees consisting primarily of course work, along
with limited research involvement and industrial
internships. It is also expected that most programs will
require participation of faculty from both biological and
computationally-intensive departments of the
university.
http://www.sciencemasters.com/fields.php
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