<p>I’m a graduating chemical engineering major, hopefully going to start a PhD next year with one of the various chemical engineering professors who do work in systems biology next year. I’m obviously somewhat biased, but chemical engineering gives a very good foundation from which you can understand all sorts of biological processes (I’m in graduate biology classes this semester, having done no biology for many years, and it’s not proving nearly as difficult as you might think). And chemical is more established than biomedical, as Saxon says, and consequently more focussed.</p>