# Molecular Biophysics Training Grant

> **NIH NIH T32** · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $578,467

## Abstract

7. Project Summary/ Abstract
The Molecular Biophysics Training Grant at Harvard University supports a predoctoral training program
focused at the interface of physical and biological sciences. The goal of the program is to provide students with
strong undergraduate backgrounds in quantitative sciences (especially physics and mathematics) with broad
training in the biophysical, chemical and molecular concepts and techniques that are required to address
outstanding problems in biology and biomedical sciences. The training program links a highly interactive group
of 51 faculty members from four departments in Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences, six departments at Harvard Medical School, and five affiliated hospitals.
The training program offers a flexible curriculum drawn from courses offered at Harvard, Harvard Medical
School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and research opportunities in a variety of disciplines
relevant to molecular biophysics with particular strengths in the areas of structural biology, computational
biology, quantitative cell biology, single molecule biophysics, neuroscience, and imaging. In addition to
coursework and research activities, the training program sponsors seminars and guest lectures; a student-run
research seminar series; a yearly offsite research retreat in the Fall that includes student and faculty research
talks, a plenary lecture and a poster session featuring research of program students; a mini-symposium
featuring talks by program faculty as well as a student poster session during the Biophysics Program
recruitment weekend in the Spring term; and social events for all trainees. Over the past 29 years, this training
program has helped foster a number of new initiatives in graduate training, and has been remarkably
successful in promoting collaborative research among its faculty and interdisciplinary training for its students
spanning all of Harvard and some of MIT.
In this competing renewal, we request support for 16 training slots for students who are affiliated with Harvard's
Biophysics Program or who are jointly affiliated with the Harvard Biophysics Program and Medical Engineering
and Medical Physics Ph.D. program in the joint Harvard/ MIT Health Sciences and Technology initiative.
Students will be preferentially funded in their first and second year of graduate studies.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9964827
- **Project number:** 5T32GM008313-32
- **Recipient organization:** HARVARD UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** VENKATESH N MURTHY
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $578,467
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1989-07-01 → 2024-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9964827

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9964827, Molecular Biophysics Training Grant (5T32GM008313-32). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9964827. Licensed CC0.

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