HuGER

Welcome to the Human Genes and the Environment Research (HuGER) training program.

The  grant is newly funded by the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), grant number T32- ES016652. This site is under construction so check back often for more information.

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Successful applicants to the program benefit from:

Collaborations among three complementary inter-disciplinary pre-, and post-doctoral training programs:  

NIEHS supported inter-disciplinary training program in Toxicogenomics and Toxicology

NSF Interdisciplinary Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT) Program in Evolutionary, Functional and Computational Genomics

Graduate Interdisciplinary Program (GIDP) in Statistics

A curriculum specifically created to address the unique requirements of a multi-disciplinary training program and access to training from faculty representing 10 departments and six colleges, with active research programs in:

Environmental and Public Health Sciences and Engineering

Population and Functional Genomics/Genetics

Computational Biology and Statistics/Bioinformatics

State-of-the-art facilities and a rich intellectual environment, a stipend, including all tuition and fe es, support for travel to scientific meetings, and funds towards research-related expenses, and the beautiful Tucson and Arizona environment.