The Consolidated Graduate Programs in Molecular Biosciences coordinates recruitment and admission of applicants to the doctoral programs in biochemistry, cell and developmental biology, microbiology and molecular genetics, physiology and integrative biology, and cellular and molecular pharmacology. As part of this task, it has established a common first-year doctoral core curriculum for those disciplines. The consolidated programs are conducted jointly by the Graduate School-New Brunswick of Rutgers University and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

Students may study with more than 200 participating faculty members affiliated with these programs. They have opportunities for study in such fields as biochemistry, biotechnology, cell biology, computational molecular biology, developmental biology, macromolecular structure, microbiology, molecular biology, molecular biophysics, molecular genetics, molecular virology, and protein engineering.