Biomedical Research @ Princeton

dm15
Thu, 23 Dec 2004 22:37:48 +0000

Uhm. I dunno so much about biomedical, but as far as molecular biology goes, Princeton’s department is really really good. I’m trying to get an internship in a protein structure lab this summer, and it’s one of the most successful in the country. There’s a lot of groundbreaking research here, and the professors are very willing to let students work in the lab, so a lot of students have several papers published by the time they start working on their senior thesis. Just thinking back on my molbio course this semester, all the big research projects were either done here, at Harvard, or at Berkeley, so I wouldn’t think Yale’s that great for bio stuff. We do have a medical center, and several students on campus are EMTs, but I don’t know if the school actually works with the medical center on research. I’m a freshman in MechE hoping to go to grad school for BiomedE, and I picked Princeton over several schools that actually have established BiomedE programs (Stanford, Duke). I’m not regretting it one bit.