Training Outcomes  

The desired outcome of QCMDB will be the development of a modern biomedical workforce that will populate every niche of society, ranging from academia, education, industry, and law, to the government. We strive to create a supportive and safe training environment that will set all trainees on a trajectory toward independence in thought and action.

Publications

It is recommended that you submit your peer-reviewed final manuscripts, accepted for publication, to PubMed Central(PMC). PMC submission assistance can be found here. Below you will find templates on how to acknowledge your funding source; please note the test is different for NIH funded trainees and TGS funded cluster trainees.

• NIH Funded Trainees - Publication Acknowledgement:  Please use this template for publications relating to research done while supported by MBTP T32 Grant, “[Name] was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health Training Grant (T32GM161675) through Northwestern University's Quantitative Cellular, Molecular, and Developmental Biology Training Program.”

Professional Development and Inclusion

The Graduate School (TGS) hosts a portal for exploring resources and programming to contribute to the professional development of our graduate students. TGS also collates a range of career development resources that are available to MBTP trainees. Additional resources (some of which are described elsewhere on this site) include:

• AccessibleNU
• Office of Fellowships
• Bioprofessionals
• Northwestern Career Advancement
• Campus Inclusion and Community
• Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS)
• Dean of Students Office
• Multicultural Student affairs
• Searle Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning
• Kellogg Management for PhDs

Core Facilities

Northwestern maintains numerous core facilities for research in the life sciences and bioengineering. These shared research facilities, beyond the laboratory facilities of the training faculty members, are described in detail on the Core Facilities Administration page of the Northwestern University Office of Research website.

Other resources

Scientific Communication Advances Research Excellence (SCOARE) offers a range of resources useful to both trainees and mentors to help facilitate communication. For trainees, this includes developing speaking, presenting, and writing skills; for mentors, skill training covers speaking, writing, and giving feedback. View their resource list here.