Welcome to the Department of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology. We are one of 15 departments comprising the SIU School of Medicine in Springfield, the capital city of Illinois. Our department consists of talented energetic faculty, each actively involved in discovery-based biomedical research and committed to the education and training of graduate and medical students at the School of Medicine. We have new and renovated laboratories and state of the art equipment which enables innovative research into clinically significant fields such as: mechanisms promoting tumor growth and

Welcome to the Concentration in Cell Biology, Immunology & Cancer Biology Part of the Multidisciplinary Biomedical and Biological Sciences (MBBS) Graduate Program . Research-intensive program leading to Master of Science (MS) or Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) The goal of our program is to train highly motivated students for careers in teaching and research in universities, industry and government Cutting-edge research and advanced training in tumor immunology, cancer biology and targeting, stem cell biology and lineage differentiation, vascular biology, reproductive immunology, genome biology and

Resources for current students in the Cell Biology, Immunology & Cancer Biology Concentration . M.S. Checklist Ph.D. Checklist Health Resources MMICB Student Handbook Absence Request Scholarships

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CLINICAL ROTATIONS Adult Inpatient - 11 months || Chief Adult Inpatient - 3 months || Geriatric Inpatient - 1 month || Outpatient Care - 12 months || Adolescent Inpatient - 2 months || Neurology - 2 months || Community Psychiatry - 1 months || Primary Care - 4 months || Consultation/Liaison - 3 months || Substance Abuse - 1 month || Electives - 8 months || Developmental Disabilities - 1 month (FTE) PATIENT POPULATION Primary service area - Springfield and vicinity (population 160,000) Referral area - Central and Southern Illinois (population 2,000,000) Residents care of patients from all