微生物学和免疫学系正式批准了哲学博士学位课程，并参加了医学科学家培训计划（有关更多信息，请参阅目录中的医学科学家培训计划部分）。该部门在免疫学，病毒学和微生物分子生物学领域进行基础研究。可以在分子，细胞和肿瘤免疫学，原核生物的分子生物学和遗传学以及病毒的分子生物学等一般领域中获得研究生学位。
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology offers formal admission to the Doctor of Philosophy degree program and participates in the Medical Scientist Training Program (see the Medical Scientist Training Program section of the catalog for more information). The department carries out basic research in the areas of immunology, virology, and microbial molecular biology. Research leading to a graduate degree is available in the general areas of molecular, cellular, and tumor immunology, molecular biology and genetics of prokaryotes, and molecular biology of viruses.