Sally Horne- Badovinac is elected President of the North American Drosophila Board of Directors (aka "the Fly Board") & Jean Greenberg is President-elect of the International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe InteractionOctober 09, 2025
Contratulations to these program trainers!
Roo Weed receives Honorable Mention for Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in the BSDOctober 01, 2025
Roo is one of three students selected for Honorable Mention for the BSD 2024/2025 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. Roo is one of five awardees from well over 100 TAs considered for this award, we thank her for her outstanding dedication and contribution to teaching!.
Summer Quarter PhD graduates, Nick Bayhi, Megan Borregard, Noah Gamble, Kyle Lin, and Eric RouviereAugust 23, 2025
Congratulations to all!
Professor Benoît Roux, winner of 2024 Cole AwardJanuary 08, 2024
Professor. Benoît Roux was selected as the winner of 2024 Kenneth Cole Award given by the Biophysical society. Benoit's selection for this prestigious award is a testament to his exceptional scientific achievements and significant contributions to the biophysical community, especially in the field of membrane biophysics.
Hope Anderson, Outstanding Teaching Assistantship AwardeeAugust 29, 2023
Congratulations to Hope Anderson who received an Outstanding Teaching Assistantship Award from the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. Awardess are recongnized for having gone above and beyond to deliver excelllent, innovative and impactful teaching in the 2022-2023 academic year.
BPHYS Program co-Director Tobin R. Sosnick is appointed William B Graham ProfessorMarch 01, 2023
Congratulations to BPHYS program co-director Tobin R. Sosnick, Professor and Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics and Fellow, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering on being appointed William B. Graham Professor.
The University of Chicago is offering a fundamentally interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Biophysical Sciences.
Our program is unique. Students in the Biophysical Sciences Program select two mentors with disparate expertise from amongst the UChicago faculty and launch an interdisciplinary project between these two research groups. In this way, we enable top students to explore the deep interface between the physical and the biological views of natural science. Our students come from a wide array of undergraduate majors spanning the biological and physical sciences, but all combine a strong interest in biological science (broadly interpreted) with expertise in Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, and/or Engineering. We provide our students with the research opportunities, training, community, and facilities they need to knit together existing disciplines and to create entirely new fields. Today, our program integrates over 70 faculty members’ laboratory groups across the Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences, Clinical Medicine, and Engineering.
