Welcome to one of Canada’s most distinctive graduate training environments in chemical biology.

This program was built on the belief that chemistry holds the key to understanding — and solving — some of the most pressing problems in biology and medicine. At McMaster, that belief is backed by a structure unlike most graduate programs: students work at the intersection of Science, Engineering, and Health Sciences, supported by over 40 faculty from seven departments and access to world-class research infrastructure including the Biointerfaces Institute and the Centre for Microbial Chemical Biology.

Our graduates leave equipped with a rare combination of technical depth and interdisciplinary range. They are capable of operating across the languages of chemistry, biology, and medicine — and the doors that opens for them speak for themselves.

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