Research Programs in the Department of Biochemistry

The programs featured here are Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics; Lipids Involved in Signal Transduction and Lipid: Protein Interactions; Cancer and the Molecular Basis of Disease.

The Department features research and training in four key technologies that form the core of modern biochemistry:

Structural Biology
Molecular Biology
Genetics/Genomics
Proteomics/Metabolomics

The research of the Department is focused in four inter-related areas that address fundamentally important biological questions:
Signal transduction in cancer, inflammation, and cardiovascular disease
DNA repair and defense against cellular damage
Redox biology
Metabolic diseases