<p>Hi All,
so I have recently been thinking a lot about my future in graduate school. I am a junior at Duke University, majoring in biomedical engineering and getting a certificate in neuroscience. I have worked in a neural prosthetics at Duke for the past year and will continue to work there. However, I am more interested in medical research utilizing RNA - more molecular biology side of neuroscience than engineering. I was wondering if it would be possible for me to pursue a PhD in an avenue of neuroscience that was more molecularly based even though I majored in engineering. I was thinking even perhaps a PhD in immunology. Is this a possibility? I have no room to take organic chemistry before I graduate and that's really my biggest concern. I have about a 3.85 - but I'm sure my GPA will continue to lower my last couple years as classes get harder. Anyway, any advice?</p>
<p>Can't you take ochem during the summer?</p>
<p>1)There should be no problem switching fields of specialization in graduate school. People who apply (and get admitted) to Neuroscience PhD programs come from a very wide variety of undergraduate majors. Most were bio or neuro, but other people have all sorts of engineering backgrounds, and some even come from psychology or philosophy!
2)No one really cares whether you took ochem or not. Some people in my program (Neuroscience PhD at UCLA) didn't even take general chem as undergrads!! But they had to catch up on their own during their graduate studies (like audit undergrad classes for example).
Good luck.</p>
<p>sounds good - thank you. I mean I could take it during the summer, but my research in the summer has given me significant insight into where I'd like to go with my research - much more meaningful then classwork.</p>