MSTP - Physics

[jokesterMD]

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Is anyone pursuing a combined medical/physics program. I would like to know where and how physics can be applied to medicine. Thanks

 

[jokesterMD]

nobody has advice???

 

[Ryan]

Rads research, and any kind of med R&D company will die to have you.

 

[N-toxicologist]

How 'bout physiology? Think Reynold's number, force-velocity equations, Pouseille's law, et.al. Lots of application of physics in medicine. Unfortunately, it seems phys. profs gloss over the real physics part, which would help me understand better (equations, you know?)

 

[byong_soo]

i am not physics major but am currently doing biooptics, which is a rising field. it involves decent amount of engineering, biology, as well as physics. it's a field that requires a lot of collaboration from everyone. I think you might be interested.

 

[JETER]

As an undergrad, I was premed and a physics major. I joined AAPM (American Association of Physicists in Medicine). They have a hugh wealth of information. Check them out. I forgot the webiste, but you can google it pretty easy. They offer several research programs as well, if you are interested.

 

[Habari]

there are a non-trivial number of excellent physicists and mathematical biologists on faculty here at rockefeller. besides radiology/physiology, here are some other interesting areas of research:
http://www.rockefeller.edu/research/area_summary.php?id=2

they are working on the following topics:
*Kinetics of biomolecular recognition
*DNA computation
*Dynamics of cytoskeletal assembly and movement
*Information theory approaches to visual perception and bird song
*Statistical methods of human genetic mapping
*Population dynamics, mathematical modeling of disease transmission and analysis of foodwebs
*Turbulence in physical systems using the mathematics of fractal geometry
*Studies of proton-antiproton collisions using the Collider Detector at Fermilab [ok, not so much bio]
*Quantum field theory and string theory [nor here]
*Genome search for promoters
*Study of biochemical networks
*Quantum dots and other bio-resistant fluorophores