Student Information & Statistics

PGG prides itself on being a rigorous training program at Harvard Medical School. Here we showcase PGG student diversity, research productivity, time to degree, and placement of our students.

PGG Numbers

PGG was initiated in 2009 and since then, the number of students joining PGG has steadily increased.

PGG Numbers chart

PGG Student Diversity

PGG is committed to recruiting underrepresented minority (URM) students and will continue to actively expand this mission.

Underrepresented Minority Students Statistics

Time to degree

The average time-to-degree at PGG is 5.8 years. 92% of PGG students finish their training before the end of their sixth year.

Time to Degree chart

Number of publications

93% of graduated PGG students have published at least one first author publication

PGG graduates publications

Some of the journals that students have published in:

PLoS Genetics
Genetics
JBC
JMB
Nat Cell Bio
Nat Struct Mol Bio
American Journal of Genetics
PNAS, Cell Reports
PLoS Bio
Nature
Molecular Cell
Cell
Genes and Development
Neuroscience
Nature Genetics

PGG Student Placement

100% of our students have found employment immediately after graduating from our program

PGG Alumni Job placement

Academic positions include prestigious national and international research universities such as Princeton, Institut Curie, MGH, Boston Childrens, Rockefeller, Brigham and Womans, MIT, and Harvard

Biotech companies joined or founded include Biosummit, Fountain Medicine, Variant Bio, Regeneron, Egenesis, Clarion, Vertex, and Sana Biotech.