Biotechnology
at Washington State University
Collaborate with researchers renowned for their global influence. Our graduate students learn from skilled mentors and prepare to use their own research to fuel advances in science and technology and to help solve profound world problems.
As a Ph.D. student at Washington State University, you will generally pursue one area, but our interdisciplinary biotechnology program allows you to draw on the expertise of faculty in nearly every discipline and build your own research program with training tailored to your specific interests and career goals.
Benefit from a powerful combination of close faculty mentorship, gaining deep knowledge of your chosen discipline, training in the techniques and technology of bioscience, experience conducting independent research, and the ability to reach across disciplines.
Departments that offer training in biotechnology 
Center for Integrated Biotechnology
The Center for Integrated Biotechnology gathers 170 faculty members in an intensely collaborative enterprise.
A key part of the University’s interdisciplinary approach to graduate studies in biotechnology, the center fosters collaboration between researchers in bioscience and related areas, providing support for multidisciplinary research efforts.
The center coordinates core laboratories and centralized services in areas such as bioinformatics, genomics, and proteomics, giving researchers access to services and equipment that may be difficult for individual labs to obtain.
The University's Plant Bioscience Building includes a state-of-the-art plant transformation core laboratory for the Center for Integrated Biotechnology
Plant bioscience building
Designed with the needs of biotechnology researchers in mind, this building offers 30-plus of the University's plant scientists and their labs a world-class home. More
Visual and virtual reality
Professor of neuroscience and psychology Robert Patterson uses virtual reality technology
to refine our understanding of how humans use vision to interact with their environment—
research that could improve
our understanding of how the brain constructs our perception of reality and also has a wealth of practical technological applications. More