University of Maine - PhD in Biomedical Engineering/Science online ~

https://online.umaine.edu/browse-degrees/

I'd say this is a first. never seen a PhD in Biomed before.

 

UMaine isn't discussed much here, but they have a decent selection of DL programs.

There's an enormous billboard facing the Southeast Expressway headed into Boston that advertises that a non-resident can go to UMaine for the cost of resident tuition for UMass.

 

This interested me, but looking at it, I'm not sure that it's distance learning in the sense of 'do it from anywhere'. The offer a $23,000 year stipend, tuition, fees and low cost medical insurance for years one and two, after which students are supposed to be supported by the laboratory in which they are doing their dissertation research from its grants.

https://online.umaine.edu/grad/ph-d-in-biomedical-science/

They say that it's available "throughout Maine" through Polycom (a teleconferencing company).

But they also talk about three semester-long laboratory rotations (fairly typical in programs like this) in which new students are embedded in research groups, meeting the researchers, picking a dissertation topic and choosing a committee. They say that two of the three rotations have to be at different partner institutions. The partner laboratory sites are (in addition to the home U Maine campus) the U. of Southern Maine, U. of New England, Maine Medical Center Research Institute, MDI Biological Laboratory and the Jackson Laboratory.

https://gsbse.umaine.edu/locations/

The Jackson Laboratory is fairly high-profile in the biomedical research world. It's the place to go to obtain mice with particular genetic characteristics needed by medical researchers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Laboratory

Looking at it for the first time, this looks to me like a remote-site program, maybe with low residency features in a few cases if your laboratory lets you work from home.