Home » Director Intro Home Director Intro Structure Timeline Med 1 & 2 Grad School Med 3 & 4 Funding Directors/Administrators Committees Research Training Programs Faculty By Name Faculty By Program Resources History Campus Resources Students Research Highlights Students by Name Students by Year Resources Alumni By Name By Degree By Year Publications Admissions Procedure Application Living in Madison Housing Dining Campus Tour City Current Events Seminar Symposium Retreat Contact Us Director's Introduction Research about the biosphere is advancing at a breathtaking pace. A major impetus for this research is the expectation that the advances will lead to more effective prevention and treatment of human diseases. Moving new advances from the laboratory to the clinic requires input from a number of scientific disciplines. Physician-scientists with training in clinical medicine and these scientific disciplines are essential members of the community of scientists that will make this vision happen. I was fortunate during my residency to receive two years of rigorous scientific training in an exciting multidisciplinary laboratory devoted to structure/function analyses of peptides and proteins. What I learned more than 30 years ago gave me the insights and momentum to establish a productive NIH-funded research program that studies basic mechanisms of cell adhesion and movement. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I have had opportunity to work with colleagues whose expertise has impacted on my research in many different ways and to combine research with teaching and clinical care. The advances in the rigor and power of the understanding that I can bring to the bench and clinic are astounding to me. These advances likely will be minor compared to the advances that present students in our Medical Scientist Training Program will experience over the next 30 years. Our Program is sponsored jointly by the School of Medicine and Public Health and the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin. Our goal is to combine high quality medical training with a rigorous PhD thesis in a departmentally based or cross-campus graduate program. We are uniquely positioned to do this. The School of Medicine and Public Health has outstanding preclinical and clinical faculties and is an integral part of a world-class research university that is strongly oriented towards graduate education. Faculty members across campus recognize the importance of the MD/PhD degree and sponsor research rotations, oversee thesis work, and provide advice and help with career planning and thesis projects. Our students have gained recognition for tackling risky and difficult projects and advancing understanding to a level that could not have been anticipated at the inception of the project. Both medical and graduate training are done in friendly environments alongside talented and highly motivated MD and PhD students. We are committed to bringing diversity of interests and background to each incoming class. The training that our students receive and the personal and professional friendships that they make during their time in Madison should last a lifetime. My faculty colleagues, our students, and I are very enthusiastic about the Medical Scientist Training Program and invite you to learn more about us and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Deane F. Mosher, M.D. Mosher Lab website