Apr 19
🎉 Congratulations to Rachael Sparklin, Claudia Carcamo, and Nathan Board for your award for Young Investigators Day!! BCMB is very... 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.
Feb 22
Congratulations to BCMB student Rachael Workman Sparklin in the Modell Lab! Rachael has been selected for a Harold M. Weintraub... Read More
Feb 03
Congratulations to BCMB student Michael Hopkins! Michael was selected as a 2023 inductee to the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. Michael... Read More
Feb 01
This year we had the opportunity to do our annual retreat in person. We had an amazing group of students... Read More
Oct 19
Congratulations to BCMB Faculty Member Justus Kebschull who was recently awarded a 2022 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering! Please... Read More
Aug 26
We are very excited to welcome the class of 2022.... Read More
Recent Accomplishments
Our students accomplish great things
2023 Young Investigators Day Awardees: The Mette Strand Research Award
/ Nathan Board2023 Young Investigators Day Awardees: The David Yue Research Award
/ Claudia CarcamoYoung Investigators Day Awardees: The Michael A. Shanoff Research Award
/ Rachael Sparklin2023 Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Inductee
/ Michael Hopkins2023 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award
/ Rachael SparklinRecent Publications
Our latest research and discoveries.
Gaido OER, Nkashama LJ, Schole KL, Wang Q, Umapathi P, Mesubi OO, Konstantinidis K, Luczak ED, Anderson ME., 2022, CaMKII as a Therapeutic Target in Cardiovascular Disease, Annu Rev Pharmacol Toxicol., doi: 10.1146/annurev-pharmtox-051421-111814. PMID: 35973713Â PubMed
Vasavda C, Tang O, Kwatra SG, Ho BK, Grossberg AL., 2023, Asymmetric patterns of patient access to in-person and teledermatologic health care during the COVID-19 pandemic, J Am Acad Dermatol., 2023 Jan;88(1):167-169. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2021.12.025. Epub 2021 Dec 18. PMCID: PMC9726204. PubMed
Nguyen LTS, Robinson DN., 2022, The lectin Discoidin I acts in the cytoplasm to help assemble the contractile machinery, J Cell Biol., 221(11):e202202063. doi: 10.1083/jcb.202202063. PMID: 36165849Â PubMed