Nov 06
Congratulations to Taylor Church, on receiving the Doctoral Life Design Studio’s 2025 Career Impact Award. The Career Impact Awards, established in 2021 at... 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.
Oct 31
Our third-year students are receiving their white coats — a cherished tradition at Johns Hopkins that marks a significant milestone... Read More
Oct 10
McLellan, a professor of molecular biosciences at the University of Texas at Austin, has transformed vaccine design with his work... Read More
Aug 13
Mar 13
Congratulations to Charles Kirby whose manuscript and image was chosen for the cover of JCI!... Read More
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
Recent Accomplishments
Our students accomplish great things
2025 NIH F31 Predoctoral Fellowship Award
2025 HHMI Gilliam Fellowship
2025 P.E.O. Scholar Award
2025 NIH F30 Predoctoral Fellowship
2025 NSF GRFP Honorable Mention
Recent Publications
Our latest research and discoveries.
Hariharan V, White JA, Dragoni F, Fray EJ, Pathoulas N, Moskovljevic M, Zhang H, Singhal A, Lai J, Beg SA, Scully EP, Gilliams EA, Block DS, Keruly J, Moore RD, Siliciano JD, Simonetti FR, Siliciano RF., 2025, Superinfection promotes replication and diversification of defective HIV-1 proviruses in people with non-suppressible viraemia, Nat Microbiol., 10(11):2736-2748. doi: 10.1038/s41564-025-02135-z. PMCID: PMC12578631 PubMed
Bergman DR, Johnson JAI, Naji M, Booth M, Lima da Rocha H, Deshpande A, Sidiropoulos DN, Lopez-Vidal T, Heiland R, Kagohara LT, Anders RA, Zheng L, Jaffee EM, Stein-O’Brien G, Macklin P, Fertig EJ., 2025, BIWT: a bioinformatics walkthrough for embedding spatial multiomics in agent-based models for virtual cells, Bioinformatics, 41(11):btaf571. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf571. PMCID: PMC12597895 PubMed
Asrani K, Amaral A, Woo J, Abadchi SN, Vidotto T, Imada E, Skaist A, Feng K, Liu HB, Kasbe M, Satou Y, Baba M, Oike Y, Outeda P, Watnick T, Rosenberg AZ, Schmidt LS, Linehan WM, Argani P, Lotan TL., 2025, SFPQ-TFE3 reciprocally regulates mTORC1 and induces lineage plasticity in a mouse model of renal tumorigenesis, Nat Commun., 16(1):8822. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-63885-2. PMCID: PMC12494988 PubMed