The Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

• Home of the GWU Nobel Laureate, Professor Ferid Murad.


• The department strives to deliver the highest quality of professional education and training, and conduct cutting edge researh in the areas of biochemistry and molecular biology.


• The department continues to have a long and successful record in training undergraduate, master and graduate students at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.


• The Research programs in the department span from the nuclear receptor corregulators, chromatin remodeling, growth regulation, cellular hepatobiology and virology, autism, vascular biology, and genomics. Unlocking the mysteries of biologic processes at the molecular level is the common thread connecting all research programs.