Biology/Biomedical Sciences Applicants 2008

Penicillin
Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:08:59 +0000

I’am applying the 2008-2009 admission cycle PhD programs in Cancer Biology. My particular area of interest is role of p53 signaling network in the regulation of apoptosis and senescence. Being an international applicant it is rather hard to get into the top10 schools, but if you try sometimes you get what you need, right?
My stats are:
BSc program in Biology with specialization (think, it is somehow analogous to the the term “major”) in embryology and developmental biology in Russia’s top3 school.
GPA: 5.0 out of 5.0.
GRE Subject biology: 920 (99%)
GRE General:TBD, think to take it in early sept.
TOEFL: also TBD

4 years of research experience, but the area of research was rather far from the molecular biology (I have done 2 research projects on development of asymmetries in vertebrates, basicly morphological aspect).
Have 2 personal research grants, 1 first-author publication in respected local journal, 1 article is in preparation for the international journal publication (also 1-st author).

My raw school list is:

1. Stanford U.

2. MIT

3. UC Berkeley

4. Cambridge U.

5. Harvard U.

6. Penn

7. Duke

8. Yale U.

Is it Ok that my research exp is quite irrelevant to the molbio program?