The Katz School of Medicine offers you the opportunity to work on basic science and clinical research projects in ultramodern research facilities with some of the world’s greatest scientists. 

Research & Facilities

Research is critical to excellent medical education and patient care. The trend in medical research today is interdisciplinary and translational, requiring teams of researchers from many disciplines to apply basic research findings to clinical interventions and therapeutics.  

Our programs are on the vanguard of discovery, aiming to reduce the devastating effects of heart and lung disease, cancer, neurological disorders and other serious diseases. Already, numerous scientific discoveries have advanced from Temple’s labs into clinical trials—work that may one day profoundly improve human lives. 

Temple strongly encourages MD students to participate in research, believing that it strengthens the basic science and clinical work of the curriculum and provides valuable collaboration with faculty and graduate students. 

Scholarly work includes lab-based research, clinical research, efficacy and outcomes work, population health research, literature reviews, or other types of scholarly activity. Katz School of Medicine students may work individually or in teams and will present their findings at an annual research symposium. Students completing the project will receive elective credit toward the MD degree. 

In 2009, Katz opened the Medical Education and Research Building (MERB). This 450,000 square foot building is now home to more than half of the school’s research scientists with open laboratory space that facilitates investigator/trainee interactions and collaboration.