Graduate Certificate in Microbiology and Immunity

University of Arizona

The core mission of the Department of Immunobiology (IMB), consistent with the missions of the College of Medicine and the University of Arizona, is to perform cutting edge research and to disseminate its results through teaching of new health professionals, scientists and the public. Our research goals are to better understand the role of the immune system in health and disease with the focus on pathogens. The department trains and educates physicians, scientists and students in all areas of immunobiology and microbiology.

The Department of Immunobiology is one of the five basic science departments and one of the 18 departments of the University of Arizona College of Medicine, on the Northeast side of the University of Arizona Campus in Tucson, AZ. The Department engages in medical and graduate student teaching, is part of the undergraduate research experience via undergraduate research programs such as UBRP, performs research on all aspects of host: microbe interaction, immune system function and dysfunction and microbial pathogenesis.

The core mission of the Department of Immunobiology (IMB), consistent with the missions of the College of Medicine and the University of Arizona, is to perform cutting edge research and to disseminate its results through teaching of new health professionals, scientists and the public. Our research goals are to better understand the role of the immune system in health and disease with the focus on pathogens. The department trains and educates physicians, scientists and students in all areas of immunobiology and microbiology.