Welcome to the Department of Biochemistry
The mission of the Department of Biochemistry (Department) encompasses intimately connected educational and research components. The educational mission of the Department is to provide excellence in classroom instruction and research training to students in diverse programs within the Department, the medical center and the undergraduate colleges. The Department is charged with the teaching of basic and advanced biochemistry courses to students within the professional schools of Boston University Medical Campus (including the medical and dental schools), to students in graduate programs throughout the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences and to undergraduates in early medical school selection programs in the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Engineering. Importantly, the Department provides laboratory research training to predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees as well as those in baccalaureate and certificate programs.
The research mission of the Department is to utilize state-of-the-art tools of biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology to understand biological processes of relevance to human disease. Both basic and translational approaches are taken in areas including cancer (cell cycle, apoptosis), metabolic diseases (diabetes), vascular and lung diseases, infectious diseases and diseases of aging. The Department is committed to providing an environment for research excellence and ethical standards, facilitating interaction and collaboration among faculty throughout Boston University and obtaining research funds from government and private sources. The education and research missions of the Department are essential components and interwoven, in that all core faculty participate in research, teaching and administration.
The department is primarily located on five floors of the Silvio O. Conte building at the Boston University School of Medicine, with additional laboratory facilities located in other buildings. The graduate program in the Department of Biochemistry accepts qualified applicants into M.A, Ph.D., and M.D./Ph.D. programs. The emphasis of the doctoral programs is on research training in the laboratory of a faculty member.
