<p>I wonder how to judge the research strength of a institute or a grad-school.(biomedical sciences or biological sciences)</p>
<p>As a biomedical sciences applicant, I only know two ways to get the info:
1.the website of the grad-school(the graduate school or school of medicine in each university)
2.the offical website of the HHMI</p>
<p>Are there any other useful website that can introduce the most promising or outstanding biological scientists in US in systematical way? </p>
<p>Or where can I find a website that provides a elaborate introdution of each grad-school's research strength and outstanding scientists in it? It's better to focus on the research PI, big names, rising stars on each area and their reaseach interest, recent achievement in science.etc.</p>
<p>Please do not list rankings such as USNEWS or NRC.etc. Numbers can solve some problems, but not always useful.</p>
<p>You already know the best ways to judge the faculty- univ websites, personal pages and such. HHMI is a great resource, as is the national academy of sciences (look for NAS members). Funding is another indicator of a strong research program, so you can always check out how much and what types of grants each faculty member has on NIH report. Check out conferences that are specific to your field, who are the keynote speakers? Who chairs sections? Often grad schools give honorific titles to especially accomplished faculty eg. James B Duke Professor of Nonsense. These are all great ways to identify accomplished (read: old) PIs.</p>
<p>You might want to check out younger PIs as well but without a clear track record of what journals they publish in, ability to maintain funding, history of former grad students and their trajectories etc, it will be somewhat of a gamble.</p>
<p>Also- never forget to talk to your current professors and advisor. They will know their peers at other institutions. They will also be the ones writing your letters of recommendation and can give you places they would be willing to write their best recommendations for. You have to get accepted to a program- it won’t matter if it is top rated if they won’t take you.</p>
<p>I guess most of this was said previously, but I’ll clarify:</p>
<p>Best and easiest way to find about the reputation of a department at a particular school: talk to a professor/advisor that knows that field.</p>
<p>Best way to judge a specific lab: go on pubmed and see what they’ve published. How often do they publish? What journals (Nature is very impressive, for example)? You can aslo go to NIH Reporter ([Query</a> Form - NIH RePORTER ? NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools Expenditures and Results](<a href=“RePORT ⟩ RePORTER”>RePORT ⟩ RePORTER)) and see how many grants the PI has.</p>