The Office of Graduate Education administers the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program (BBSP), an umbrella admissions and first-year training program for nine of the PhD granting departments/curricula in the School of Medicine as well as five other programs across campus. The BBSP member programs are listed below.

School of Medicine

• Biochemistry & Biophysics
• Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
• Cell & Developmental Biology
• Cell & Molecular Physiology
• Genetics & Molecular Biology
• Microbiology & Immunology
• Molecular & Cellular Pathology
• Neurobiology
• Pharmacology
• Toxicology

College of Arts & Sciences

• Biology
• Chemistry (Biological Chemistry track)

School of Pharmacy

• Pharmaceutical Sciences (Chemical Biology/Medicinal Chemistry or Molecular Pharmaceutics tracks only)

School of Dentistry

• Oral Biology

Students interested in pursuing these areas of research apply to UNC through the BBSP.

Biomedical Engineering

The joint UNC-NC State Biomedical Engineering Program (BME) is not part of the BBSP program.  Students interested in this program should apply directly to the BME program.