Applications to QSB for Fall 2027 are now open! The priority deadline is Dec. 1, 2026, and the final deadline is Dec. 15, 2026. Apply online.

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A look at Quantitative & Systems Biology
A look at Quantitative and Systems Biology
Click to get a glimpse of the QSB program from multiple perspectives! 
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Why QSB?
Quantitative and Systems Biology aims to accelerate the pace at which paradigm-shifting discoveries transform biology.
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Joint Genome Institute
A summer program for graduate students at UC Merced to study in labs at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Click to learn more! 
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Accelerating Biological Discovery Through Innovation

Whether your passion is to reduce human suffering from disease, mitigate climate-change effects on ecosystems, or advance how we understand, explain and predict living systems, your career will benefit from the unique competitive advantages of a QSB degree.

Participating Departments

Applied Mathematics

Bioengineering

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Cognitive & Information Sciences

Cognitive & Information Sciences

Environmental Systems

Life & Environmental Sciences

Materials, Biomaterials Science & Engineering

Molecular & Cell Biology

Medical Education

Physics

  

Featured News

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$4.5 million NIH Grant Expands Interdisciplinary Biomedical Training at UC Merced

October 7, 2026

A five-year, $4.5 million T32 institutional training grant from the National Institutes of Health will establish a new doctoral training program at UC Merced for students pursuing careers in...

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Merced Native Sets Sights on Career in Veterinary Medicine

August 10, 2026

This is part of a series of profiles of new UC Merced Bobcats enrolled for the fall 2026 semester. Driven by a passion for animal care, incoming biological sciences major student Esperanza Garcia is...

A Healer Shaped by the Valley and Devoted to Its Future

July 30, 2026

Editor's note: This story is republished from the Spring/Summer 2026 issue of UC Merced Magazine. Dr. Garima Handa's journey from an undergraduate at UC Merced to a physician specializing in...