Medical scientists working within the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Indiana University School of Medicine put considerable focus on studying the biochemical and molecular basis of cancer, diabetes and obesity, neurological disorders, infectious diseases, cardiovascular malfunctions, and alcoholism—all areas of expertise of IU School of Medicine—and take pride in the extensive research collaborations that occur with the school’s other academic and clinical departments. Most of the faculty are associated with the Indiana Alcohol Research Center, Center for Diabetes and Metabolic Disease, Indiana University Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center and/ or other major research centers at IU School of Medicine.
Areas of faculty research include signal transduction mechanisms, molecular biology, enzyme catalysis, post-transcriptional control and post-translational modification, cell cycle and DNA repair, metabolic regulation, macromolecular structure and function, bioinformatics and computational biology, proteomics and genomics, gene regulation, chemical and structural biology, and high throughput methods for therapeutic discovery.
