Recent advances in chemistry, molecular biology, and modern experimental techniques provide us with a great opportunity to increase our understanding of biological systems at the molecular level. The traditional boundary between chemistry and molecular biology has become nearly seamless, as they get spliced and woven together.

The Biochemistry program in Chemistry Department is dedicated to the investigation of the complex relationships between bio-macromolecules. Studies of protein-protein interactions, protein-nucleic acid interactions and protein-ligand interactions that control most cellular functions represent current interesting areas in post-genomics era. The strong focus of the biochemistry program is on understanding these functions in chemical and biochemical ways based on revealing of the structural and dynamic aspects of bio-macromolecules. The significance of delineating the structural basis of molecular and cellular events lies in the potential for making predictions that allow advances in medicine.

In the Chemical Biology program, our expertise in organic/bioorganic/ bioinorganic synthesis and analytical/physical/theoretical chemistry is applied to problems at the interface between chemistry, biology, and medicine. There are fourteen laboratories in the Department of Chemistry that offer a diverse array of research opportunities in all aspect of chemical studies of biological systems.

Chemistry faculty with research interests in Biochemistry
Changill Ban