Welcome to the Department of Biochemistry
Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Disease Mechanisms
Welcome to The Department of Biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine. We are a highly interactive group of faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows with diverse research interests in biochemistry, cell biology, molecular biology, and genetics. We use cutting-edge technologies and experimental systems to address the cellular and molecular mechanisms of biological processes, particularly those that relate broadly to human disease.
Specific research themes within the Department include Neuroscience & Aging; Signal Transduction & Cancer; ECM/Cellular Injury; Metabolism, Obesity/Diabetes; Proteomics, Glycomics & Lipidomics; and Development.
As part of the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences, we are committed to the education of graduate, medical, and dental students. The emphasis of our graduate program is on comprehensive research training in our faculty members’ laboratories. In addition, many of our nearly 50 graduate students join our active research labs through the Cell and Molecular Biology Program.
Under the direction of our Chair, Dr. David A. Harris, our Department has embarked on an exciting, new expansion initiative, with the recruitment of new faculty members and substantial renovation of our research laboratories.
Please return to our website frequently or contact us to learn more about our graduate programs and research discoveries!
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Dr. Valetina Perissi named Grunebaum Faculty Fellow
“Congratulations to Dr. Valentina Perissi who was recently named a Grunebaum Faculty Fellow. The Grunebaum Faculty Research Fellowship, a BUSM annual faculty award, provides $36,000 in direct costs to a selected faculty member for a period of one year.
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Congratulations to Dr. Dafne Cardamone for her recent publication
“Congratulations to Dafne Cardamone and the Perissi lab for their recent publication in Molecular Cell which was selected for the cover! The cover image Dafne designed with the help of Philip F. O’Brien depicts the “two faces of GPS2,” as a transcriptional cofactor in the nucleus and an inhibitor of TNFR signaling in the cytoplasm, by referring to the mythical figures of the twin brothers Castor and Pollux, who divided their lives between the Hades, as mortals, and the Olympus, as immortals.”
The Spotlight section will highlight exciting research discoveries, grants, and Biochemistry Department News. Spotlight archives are here Archives
