The Graduate School of Biomedical Science & Engineering (GSBSE) offers a doctoral degree in Biomedical Engineering. The GSBSE contributes to learning and discovery on the ''emerging frontier'' of the biological, physical, clinical, and behavioral sciences, preparing new faculty, training scientists and engineers, and furthering Maine's biotechnology and biomedical infrastructure. Students admitted to the GSBSE can choose a dissertation mentor from over 150 faculty located at any one of these world-class research and educational institutions. Student access to courses, as well as faculty, is achieved through a high-end videoconferencing system. The faculty investigate the basic processes that take us from fertilized egg to functional being, which also hold key information about how our genes function.