Nov 25
We had a great time at this year’s BCMB Retreat. A day and a half filled with science, community, exploring,... Read More
Welcome to the Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology (BCMB) Graduate Program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
We are one of the oldest multidisciplinary graduate programs in the country. Our mission is to train independent research scientists for productive careers by providing a broad foundation in basic science and promoting the study of problems of biomedical importance from a mechanistic perspective. Learn More from our director
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Recent News
Updates and news from our department.
Aug 30
BCMB will be hosting two virtual informational sessions. You will have the opportunity to learn about our program and ask... Read More
Apr 18
Congratulations to four of our BCMB students on winning Young Investigators Day Awards this year. Casie Kubota, Connor McKenney, Tyler... Read More
Apr 02
Congratulations to Dr. Sergi Regot (Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics) for receiving the 2024 Hamilton Smith Award for Innovative... Read More
Nov 07
Congratulations to the 2021 Class for receiving the honorary white coat!... Read More
Oct 26
Congratulations to Erin Goley, Zhaozhu Qiu, Shigeki Watanabe and Bin Wu on being the first recipients of the Randall J.... Read More
Recent Accomplishments
Our students accomplish great things
2024 Young Investigators Day: The Mette Strand Research Award
2024 Young Investigators Day: The David Yue Research Award
2024 Young Investigators Day: The Bae Gyo Jung Research Award
2024 Young Investigators Day: The Michael A. Shanoff Research Award
2024 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (Honorable Mention), Raygan Murray
Recent Publications
Our latest research and discoveries.
Martin S, Kim CY, Coller J., 2024, Assessment of mRNA Decay and Calculation of Codon Occurrence to mRNA Stability Correlation Coefficients after 5-EU Metabolic Labeling, Methods Mol Biol., 2025;2863:151-182. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-4176-7_11. PMID: 39535710 PubMed
McQuillen R, Perez AJ, Yang X, Bohrer CH, Smith EL, Chareyre S, Tsui HT, Bruce KE, Hla YM, McCausland JW, Winkler ME, Goley ED, Ramamurthi KS, Xiao J., 2024, Light-dependent modulation of protein localization and function in living bacteria cells, Nat Commun., 15(1):10746. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-54974-9. PMCID: PMC11685620 PubMed
Thompson EG, Spead O, Akerman SC, Curcio C, Zaepfel BL, Kent ER, Philips T, Vijayakumar BG, Zacco A, Zhou W, Nagappan G, Rothstein JD., 2024, A robust evaluation of TDP-43, poly GP, cellular pathology and behavior in an AAV-C9ORF72 (G4C2)66 mouse model, Acta Neuropathol Commun., 12(1):203. doi: 10.1186/s40478-024-01911-y. PMCID: PMC11670477 PubMed