Who does the Koch Institute train?
The Koch Institute provides unique training and educational opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers. Postdoctoral researchers (Postdoctoral Associates and Postdoctoral Fellows), or “postdocs” as they are familiarly known, hold doctoral degrees from all over the country and the world, and come to the Koch Institute to pursue research and training under the guidance of a faculty member. Graduate students working with investigators in the Koch Institute are admitted primarily through MIT departments including Biology, Biological Engineering, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering. Graduate students are an integral part of the Koch Institute’s research labs and work closely with faculty members to pursue some of the most exciting areas of research in cancer and related fields. Undergraduate students from across the campus have the opportunity to collaborate with Koch Institute faculty through the MIT Undergraduate Resear
