Wake Forest University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences offers a Graduate Program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in conjunction with the Wake Forest School of Medicine Department of Biochemistry, and is recruiting highly motivated and enthusiastic students interested in training for a successful career in biomedical sciences.
Research
The research interests of the faculty are focused in four inter-related areas that address fundamentally important biological questions:
- Signal transduction in cancer and inflammation
- Nucleic acid metabolism in cancer, inflammation and degenerative disease
- Redox biology
- Metabolic diseases such as diabetes, diabetic retinopathy and atherosclerosis
This graduate program features research and training in four key technologies that form the core of modern Biochemistry:
- Structural Biology
- Molecular Biology
- Genetics/Genomics
- Proteomics/Metabolomics
Research in the Department of Biochemistry is highly collaborative. Faculty members and students participate in the activities of a variety of research centers whose missions include promoting research collaborations. These include:
NIH Institutional Training Grants (T32 grants) have Biochemistry faculty members as part of their training faculty:
- T32-GM127261 “Redox Biology and Medicine Training Program”
- T32-AI007401 “Training Program in Immunology and Pathogenesis”
- T32-CA079448 “Training Program in Cancer Biology”
The Department of Biochemistry has state-of-the-art facilities for use by students and postdoctoral fellows. Students are encouraged to develop a hands-on understanding of the instrumentation used in their research.
Laboratories for macromolecular X-ray crystallography as well as rapid reaction kinetics, time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy, circular dichroism spectroscopy, phosphorimaging, dynamic light scattering, cellular imaging, and analytical ultracentrifugation have been established to meet the needs of investigators.
The professionally staffed Biomolecular Resource Core Facilities are also available for protein and DNA sequence analysis, peptide and oligonucleotide synthesis, GC- and tandem mass spectrometry.
In addition to the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology graduate program, Department of Biochemistry faculty members also participate in additional graduate programs, whose students may be working beside you in the laboratory:
The Graduate School Bulletin includes further information about courses and degree requirements.
