Program Overview

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Master of Translational Medicine

The Master of Translational Medicine Degree is a Professional Masters program that equips students with the knowledge and skills necessary to bring medical innovation from the engineer’s bench to the patient’s bedside. This program is backed by two world-class institutions – the Department of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley and the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at UCSF.

Program Overview

The Master of Translational Medicine program is an intensive, one-year program designed to transform students into professionals capable of bringing clinical innovations to life. The program offers two tracks: medical devices and therapeutics. Both tracks explore how medical products move from concept to clinical trials and into commercialization.

Curriculum

The curriculum provides students with a broad academic background that spans everything from regulation to clinical needs. This breadth of knowledge opens the door for engineers, scientists, and clinicians to collaborate.

Capstone

The centerpiece of the Master of Translational Medicine program is a year-long capstone project experience. Students join real-world teams to take medical innovations from an idea to the clinic.

Community

The Master of Translational Medicine program is a place where a diverse cohort comes together with world-class faculty and shares a single vision: to improve clinical care. The program's community includes amazing students, staff, and alumni who make the Master of Translational Medicine one-of-a-kind.

Program Details

• The program is a one-year intensive course.
• It offers two tracks: medical devices and therapeutics.
• The medical device track covers ideation and prototyping.
• The therapeutics track explores the pathways of biopharma innovations from hits to leads.
• The program includes a year-long capstone project experience.
• Graduates have achieved significant results, including founding companies and raising funding for their ventures.

Outcomes

• 27 companies have been founded by alumni.
• Alumni have raised over $100M in funding for their ventures.
• The job and continuing education placement rate within 6 months of graduating is 88%.

Testimonials

Divek Toprani

Class of 2021

“My goal was to become a physician with the ability to commercialize solutions that I came up with. Out of all the programs I looked at, the MTM degree was the only one that focused… on development past the early stages and provided the flexibility to customize the degree such that it was maximally useful for me.”

Megan Sullivan

Class of 2017

“Before the MTM program, I was working as a nurse at the bedside and realized I wanted to be a part of upstream innovation. I wanted to work on products that not only affected the patients I was caring for that day, but were a part of thousands of peoples’ lives. The MTM for me was a perfect combination of engineering, business, and clinical needs that get those products to patients.”

Hsin-Hung Chen

Class of 2024

“I am a doctor with experience in running a business focused on medical device innovations. What MTM teaches correlates perfectly with my passion and profession. The abundant resources provided by both UC Berkeley and UCSF made the program even more appealing.”